Top Five: Lori Powell
Top Five Statements about Poetry Made by Poets
- I don’t look on poetry as closed works. I feel they’re going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length. — John Ashbery
- If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. — Emily Dickinson
- Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of the joke, you’ve lost the whole thing. — W.S. Merwin
- We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. — William Butler Yeats
- Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. — Robert Frost
—Lori Powell
