Crafts Quote by William Stafford

Poetry is an act of peace.

— Pablo Neruda

a poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it.

— Gwen Harwood

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

— W. S. Merwin

Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.

— Ama Ata Aidoo

There is a kind of poetry in simple fact.

— Edward Abbey

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

— Paul Verlaine

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 can use anything to talk about anything.

— Jane Hirshfield

Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which…

— N. Scott Momaday

A poem is, so to speak, a way of making you forget how you wrote it.

— Randall Jarrell

Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.

— A. E. Housman

Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but…

— Jean Cocteau