Walter Savage Landor Quotes

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.

Prose is all about embellishing and describing.

I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry.

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

I like poems that are complex.

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense.

Piercing minds go mute around poetry. It is imagined to be overly technical, like advanced arithmetic; otherworldly, priestess-like; suffocatingly personal; excessively decorative; exhaustingly bourgeois or tiringly avant-garde.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Poetry seems to be the only weapon able to beat language, using language's own means.

One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure.

Poetry has the ability to create entire moments with just a few choice words. The spacing and line breaks create rhythm, a helpful musicality, a natural flow. The separate stanzas aid in perpetuating a kind of incremental reading, one small chunk at a time.

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that.

I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.