Certain Quote by Muriel Rukeyser

The statement of ideas in a poem may have to do with logic. More profoundly, it may be identified with the emotional progression of…

— Muriel Rukeyser

A poem is but a thought, a mere memory caught at play. From hand onto paper, bleeding thoughts emerge.

— Robert M. Hensel

Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images.

— Anonymous

Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.

— Mina Loy

The meaning of a poem is in the cadences and the shape of the lines and the pulse of the thought which is given…

— George Oppen

Poems, to me, do not come from ideas, they come from a series of images that you tuck away in the back of your…

— Carolyn Kizer

There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.

— Dana Goodyear

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

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.

— Stephane Mallarme

A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

— Stephane Mallarme

These days, if you happen to be a poet you have to sing your words to get your ideas out.

— Sara Genn