Cities Quote by Vladimir Mayakovsky

In our language rhyme is a barrel. A barrel of dynamite. The line is a fuse. The line smoulders to the end and explodes;…

— Vladimir Mayakovsky

The line is a way of framing poetry. All verse is measured by lines. The poetic line immediately announces its difference from everyday speech…

— Edward Hirsch

Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.

— Margaret Atwood

“Lineation can make your break your poems.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

The line is a whole, an identity, for a particular place and time.

— Fred Sandback

“One line lands in a word and one word lands in a line and there you have it the secret of poetry”

— Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore

I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem.

— James Fenton

Every single line means something.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

A line is a dot that went on a walk.

— Paul Klee

I don't know how a line works. -every human ever

— Sara Underwood

Poetry is a section of river-fog and moving boat-lights, delivered between bridges and whistles, so one says, 'Oh!' and another, 'How?'

— Carl Sandburg

A line is a dot that went for a walk.

— Paul Klee