Extras Quote by Matthea Harvey

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have…

— Jack Prelutsky

A poem is a small machine made out of words.

— William Carlos Williams

You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I could seize…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Maybe because I can't even put together an IKEA desk, I've never been tempted to think of my own poems as built objects -…

— James Arthur

A poem is a small machine made of words.

— William Carlos Williams

I wanted many of the poems to have long legs. At first I was calling them clothespin poems, before I knew what I was…

— Lucie Brock-Broido

Craft is a trick you make up to let you write the poem.

— Anne Sexton

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of…

— Walter Savage Landor

A poem is a verbal artifact which must be as skillfully and solidly constructed as a table or a motorcycle.

— W. H. Auden

Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form.

— Shirin Neshat

A poem is like a painting.

— Horace

A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.

— Helen Vendler