Related quotes
- One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
- Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.
- Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
- But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
- When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.
- If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.