Construction Quote by Sven Birkerts

A poem is a small machine made of words. . .Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character.

— William Carlos Williams

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

— Robert Morgan

A poem is a flexible thing, and a poem is a poem.

— Juan Felipe Herrera

A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.

— Paul Verlaine

A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic medium of…

— Campbell McGrath

“Poetry is a separate language, or more specifically, a language within a language.”

— Paul Valéry

Poetry is a language used in a different way.

— Anonymous

Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process of knowing by means of language.

— Mark Doty

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

— Ezra Pound

Poetry is a subset of a Cosmos, which in itself, is a poem.

— Vanna Bonta

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem,…

— Sakyong Mipham

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

— John Drinkwater