Avant garde Quote by Seamus Heaney

“I never liked the term “experimental writing,” but what else is a prose poem? Having written a number of them, I still don’t know…

— Russell Edson

All poetry is experimental poetry.

— Wallace Stevens

I'm not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that.

— Tanya Saracho

A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.

— Edgar Allan Poe

To be a poet you have to experiment.

— Matthea Harvey

The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to…

— Seamus Heaney

If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me poetical science?

— Ada Lovelace

I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple…

— Bo Burnham

I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work…

— Helen Vendler

What I see in science is a lot of imagination referring to things that are fundamental to what we are. Our cells, our history,…

— Alex Garland

Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat.

— David Whyte