Computers Quote by William Carlos Williams

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

— Paul Verlaine

There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words.

— William Carlos Williams

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 is just a little machine for remembering itself”

— Kyle Simonsen

In a machine, every part has a function. In a poem, every word needs to be there.

— Elaine Equi

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

— Juan Felipe Herrera

A poem is like a painting.

— Horace

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

— W. H. Auden

A poem is a cup of words open to the sky and wind in a bucket.

— Naomi Shihab Nye

A poem is a box, a thing, to put other things in. For safe keeping.

— Marianne Boruch

Writing a poem is discovering.

— Robert Frost

A poem is a record of a discovery.

— Ted Kooser