Active Quote by Stephanie Strickland

Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human…

— Ezra Pound

Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

— John Steinbeck

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to the computer…

— Natasha Trethewey

The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of…

— Edward Hirsch

“To write or read a poem is . . . to enter into a different kind of thought world from our normal patterns. A…

— N.T. Wright

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

If a poem is written well, it was written with the poet's voice and for a voice. Reading a poem silently instead of saying…

— Robert Pinsky

I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry.

— Ice T

Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible.

— Tavares Strachan

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

Writing a poem is always a process of subtracting: you start with all of language available to you, and you choose a smaller field.

— Matthea Harvey