Justice Quote by Stephen Burt

The main thing a poem ought to be is musical. It should be rhythmic. You should hear it as a musical piece in your…

— John Cooper Clarke

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

— George Will

A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text.

— Louise Rosenblatt

Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.

— Emma Lazarus

What makes a poem is the discipline inherent in making a poem: trying to fit feelings in the requisite number of syllables and lines,…

— Derek Walcott

I think a good poem should have some inscrutable part. You can't quite explain it. The poem can only explain itself to a certain…

— Billy Collins

One demands two things of a poem. Firstly, it must be a well-made verbal object that does honor to the language in which it…

— W. H. Auden

A fine poem combines the elements of meaning, music, and a form like a living frame that holds it together.

— Arnold Adoff

If you can explain a poem, it is not a poem. Poetry has to be inexplicable.

— Luis Gonzalez

Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.

— Ama Ata Aidoo

It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth the intangible…

— Frank O'Hara

Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.

— C. S. Lewis