In response to a critic who asked: 'That looks like prose not poetry, what's your distinction?' William said: 'It's poetry because I say it's poetry.' View quotes by William Carlos Williams
You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. [Maybe that explains the lack of decent poetry in recent years then!] View quotes by Phyllis Gotlieb
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. View quotes by Aristotle
'Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others.' View quotes by Bryant McGill
