Poetry Quotes

• Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Criticism
  • Novels
  • Experiments

• Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Heart
  • Poetry

• History is the new poetry.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • History
  • Poetry

• Poetry is prose in slow motion.

  

  Nicholson Baker
  • Poetry
  • Motion
  • Prose

• Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Poetry
  • Stars

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