Code Quote by Satya Nadella

Poetry is very crafted. You can't have too many words. It needs compression. It has to be spare, just the right number of words.

— Barbara Feldon

With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the text, but the text -…

— Eric Whitacre

A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.

— E. B. White

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages. ”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

I want a poem which is made of compression, passion, precision, symmetry, & disruption.

— Lucie Brock-Broido

“A non-programmer friend once remarked that code looks like poetry. I get that feeling from really good code, that everything in the text has…

— Kevlin Henney

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once…

— Anonymous

Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm,…

— Sven Birkerts

I like bringing poetry's focus on figurative language and compression into the essay. Of course, the musical properties of language, the cadence of the…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

Prose gets divided up into fiction and nonfiction and short fiction and long fiction and autobiographical nonfiction and so on. Poetry can do any…

— Robert Hass

“Poetry is a story that is so good, It doesn't need complete sentences.”

— John Smyth

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of messages.”

— Vanessa M. Chattman