Accepting Quote by Wendell Berry

Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.

— Nathalie Sarraute

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

— William Carlos Williams

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

— Robert Morgan

The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see.

— Robert Penn Warren

when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it…

— Sybil Marshall

Poetry is perhaps the oldest art form. We can go back to an age-old idea of naming things, the Adamic impulse - to give…

— Nick Laird

Poetry's object is truth.

— Christine de Pizan

A poem is a verbal artifact which must be as skillfully and solidly constructed as a table or a motorcycle.

— W. H. Auden

The poem is not a physical body. It's a textual body that has life only insofar as it can act symbolically. It cannot physically…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

A poem is a construction of inner space. Language is to inner space as light is to material space.

— Sven Birkerts

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

— Juan Felipe Herrera

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