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I think poetry bridges text and image. Poetry is visual in its imagery - but it requires close attention to words themselves. Words become…

— Allegra Goodman

Lately, I've been thinking about the difference between poetry and prose, and as I've experienced it, poetry is insistent. It allows for images and…

— Tracy K. Smith

“To write or read a poem is . . . to enter into a different kind of thought world from our normal patterns. A…

— N.T. Wright

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we…

— Robert Morgan

Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.

— George Santayana

I don't know where the shape of a poem comes from. I certainly don't impose it. I write out of a jumble of emotions…

— Michael Longley

To me, poetry is a recreation, a renewal of language... The subtlety of what words mean and the fact that you write something and…

— Mary Ann Hoberman

Poetry is a way of being alone without feeling alone. It allows you to experience another mind, I suppose. And it does that more…

— Nick Laird

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

— Ezra Pound

Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions…

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.

— Carl Sandburg

I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.

— Carol Ann Duffy