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
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. View quotes by Leonard Cohen
