Louis Dudek Quotes

The difference between 'lighght' and another type of poem with more words is that it doesn't have a reading process. Even a five-word poem has a beginning, middle, and end. A one-word poem doesn't. You can see it all at once. It's instant.

Prose is all about embellishing and describing.

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

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

Poetry is not an issue of form and enjambments. Poetry, as the word is classically used, has to do with sound and sense. It can be rhyme. It can be rhythm, pace, breath.

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

Poetry, first and foremost, is the lyric. It's the music.

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

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

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.

Poetry, as odd as it is, and as hard to figure out as it is, many times, it's almost something that we're used to. It's kind of like a dream language that we had centuries ago, so that when we speak poetically or write a poem about what's going on, a real difficult issue that's facing our communities, people listen.

Emily Dickinson has great sound and sense.

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

Poetry is composing for the breath.

Frost is the most sophisticated of poets.

A really good poem is full of music.

Poetry is meant to be heard.