About Quote by Miller Williams

That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but…

— Ivan Turgenev

You must believe: a poem is a holy thing - a good poem, that is. The poem, even a short time after being written,…

— Theodore Roethke

The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see.

— Robert Penn Warren

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

— Mark Strand

A poem can use anything to talk about anything.

— Jane Hirshfield

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

— Charles Bukowski

poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of…

— Annie Dillard

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

— Wallace Stevens

The form of a poem is invisible. A poem is not an "object." This is hard to accept in a mechanical age.

— Wendell Berry

Poetry is not a way of saying things; it's a way of seeing things.

— Karl Shapiro

You must believe a poem is a holy thing, a good poem, that is.

— Theodore Roethke

Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death

— Ruben Dario