Constructs Quote by Shirin Neshat

Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.

— Anne Sexton

I know that in some ways I operate from a kind of antiquated interest in imagery, while many contemporary poets are not so interested…

— Martha Ronk

Every poet has a certain amount of "stuff." That's what you draw from for imagery. The more stuff you know well, not simply intellectually…

— Marge Piercy

My poems always begin with a metaphor, but my way into the metaphor may be a word, an image, even a sound. And I…

— Stephen Dobyns

“The thing that makes poetry different from all other arts [is that] you're using language, which is what you use for everything else--telling lies…

— W.S. Merwin

Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images.

— Anonymous

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

Poetry takes on meaning when it becomes one metaphor.

— Jeremy Limn

I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.

— Edith Södergran

The practice of employing metaphor and image and composition and linguistic choices to move the reader through the content.

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Poetry is fact given over to imagery.

— Rod McKuen

Poetry was my 'in' to the idea that I could express myself through art.

— Sebastian Lelio