Addresses Quote by Pattiann Rogers

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem,…

— Sakyong Mipham

Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way,…

— C. K. Williams

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

— Karl Shapiro

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

— Ezra Pound

Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.

— Kenneth Koch

Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with the language,…

— Pattiann Rogers

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is…

— Thomas Lynch

Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible…

— Robert Frost

Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.

— Joseph Brodsky

Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell developed civilizations…

— Northrop Frye

Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.

— Emma Lazarus

Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered,…

— Gilbert Highet