Connections Quote by Robert Morgan

A poem is a small machine made of words. . .Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character.

— William Carlos Williams

A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic medium of…

— Campbell McGrath

when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it…

— Sybil Marshall

Poetry demands a different material than prose. It uses another facet of the same fact … the spontaneous conformation of language as it is heard.

— William Carlos Williams

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

— John Drinkwater

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 rhymes, a song our souls need to nourish upon. Poetry is a drum, a sound our bodies wish to have. Poetry is organized,…

— Gloria D. Gonsalves

Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process of knowing by means of language.

— Mark Doty

A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.

— Thomas Harrison

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

— Wallace Stevens

“To write or read a poem is . . . to enter into a different kind of thought world from our normal patterns. A…

— N.T. Wright

Poetry is perhaps the oldest art form. We can go back to an age-old idea of naming things, the Adamic impulse - to give…

— Nick Laird