Computers Quote by William Carlos Williams

A poem is a small machine made out of words.

— William Carlos Williams

A poem is a small machine made of words.

— William Carlos Williams

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

— Paul Verlaine

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

— Elaine Equi

“a poem is just a little machine for remembering itself”

— Kyle Simonsen

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

— William Carlos Williams

The poem, in a sense, is no more or less than a little machine for remembering itself ... Poetry is therefore primarily a commemorative act.

— Don Paterson

Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.

— Mary Ruefle

Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy.

— William Carlos Williams

When I think of someone equating poems and machines, it makes me feel like that person would like poems to have a more obvious…

— Elaine Equi

Poetry is our heart, our spirit, our soul. Call it whatever; without it, everything else is nothing but hardware.

— Vanna Bonta

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

— Marianne Boruch