Around Quote by Tim Key

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put…

— Oscar Wilde

We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer…

— Clifton Fadiman

I have always wanted to midcourse-correct (or undermine) in a poem, and let that be the turn. That poem is to do with displacement,…

— Randall Mann

Poems are rough notations for the music we are.

— Anonymous

I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work.

— Joy Harjo

We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer…

— Clifton Fadiman

A backward poet writes inverse.

— Nikhil Saluja

But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either…

— Andrew Motion

I believe every space and comma is a living part of the poem and has its function, just as every muscle and pore of…

— Denise Levertov

Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.

— Carolyn Kizer

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

— John Crowe Ransom

Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language.

— Matthea Harvey