Air Quote by Robert Pinsky

The medium of poetry is not words, the medium of poetry is not lines-it is the motion of air inside the human body, coming…

— Robert Pinsky

Poetry’s medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem.

— Robert Pinsky

Poetry is a very complex art… It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

— Ezra Pound

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

— Herbert McCabe

Poetry, unlike music, is a meta-art, and relies upon non-physical structures for the production of its effects. In its case, the medium is syntax,…

— Don Paterson

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

— David Biespiel

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching…

— Story Musgrave

Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.

— Carolyn Forche

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

— Maya Angelou

Poetry is the most bodily of the arts.

— Robert Pinsky

Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.

— Fleur Adcock

The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.

— Earle Birney