Asks Quote by Pattiann Rogers

A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text.

— Louise Rosenblatt

Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.

— Helen Vendler

People have explored these questions ['Why am I here?', 'What is life about?'] in poems, not that they found their answers, but in reading…

— Gwee Li Sui

Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.

— Vicente Aleixandre

Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.

— Anonymous

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

“Decide if a poem is a question or a declaration, a meditation or an outcry.”

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Poetry is one of the most full ways of discovering what it feels like to be a human being in this particular moment, in…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is…

— Mark Strand

Poetry's work is the clarification and magnification of being.

— Jane Hirshfield

I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how…

— Anonymous

Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the…

— Jane Hirshfield