- Nov 07, 2020
Poem Quotes
On language, form, and what a poem holds.
This collection gathers quotes about poems, including the claim that a poem is bound by language while a poetics is not. See also our Art quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.
- Prose
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- Nov 07, 2020
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem.
- Picture
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- Nov 07, 2020
A picture is a poem without words.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every old poem is sacred.
- Call
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
- Poet
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- Nov 07, 2020