Ifs Quote by Richard Hell

I think poetry bridges text and image. Poetry is visual in its imagery - but it requires close attention to words themselves. Words become…

— Allegra Goodman

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

— Eugenio Montale

There are definitely connections between poems, but I wanted each to stand on its own. I guess it goes back to the idea of…

— Kevin Powers

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the…

— Stephen Sondheim

Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.

— Peter J. Daniels

Poetry has the ability to create entire moments with just a few choice words. The spacing and line breaks create rhythm, a helpful musicality,…

— Jason Reynolds

Lately, I've been thinking about the difference between poetry and prose, and as I've experienced it, poetry is insistent. It allows for images and…

— Tracy K. Smith

Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first…

— Bjork

Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.

— Carl Sandburg

The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of…

— Edward Hirsch

Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.

— Thomas Kinkade

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those…

— Marilyn Hacker