Demand Quote by William Carlos Williams

Poetry is a language used in a different way.

— Anonymous

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching…

— Story Musgrave

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

— John Denham

Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with the language,…

— Pattiann Rogers

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

— Ezra Pound

Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell developed civilizations…

— Northrop Frye

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

— Ezra Pound

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

— David Biespiel

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

— J. Patrick Lewis

Poetry, unlike music, is a meta-art, and relies upon non-physical structures for the production of its effects. In its case, the medium is syntax,…

— Don Paterson

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

— John Drinkwater

Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.

— Fleur Adcock