Air Quote by Robert Pinsky

The medium of poetry is a human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx and the…

— Robert Pinsky

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

— Robert Pinsky

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, 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 language trying to become bodily experience.

— Herbert McCabe

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

— Maya Angelou

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

— John Drinkwater

One of the things that distinguishes poetry from ordinary speech is that in a very few number of words, poetry captures some kind of…

— Edward Hirsch

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

— Fleur Adcock

The body of poetry is nothing but energy, waves, rhythm.

— Kim Hyesoon

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