“When someone offers you lines like that, he must be Mephistopheles and you must be Faust. You know you shouldn't succumb to such language, but you succumb.”
— William LoganPoetry is a kind of storytelling that can be more authentic than any kind of history or any account of an event.
— William LoganThe real world is where the books we read begin to take on meaning.
— William LoganA critic is someone who knows the way but can't drive the car.
— William LoganTo understand poetry, one must understand life itself in all its shades and contradictions.
— William LoganThe beauty of poetry is not in the perfect verse but in the imperfections that make it real.
— William LoganThe power of poetry lies not in what it says, but in how it makes us feel about the world.
— William LoganThe best poetry is always the kind that catches us by surprise, that makes us see the world in a way we’ve never seen it before.
— William LoganA poem is a piece of writing that draws attention to its own making and makes the reader more aware of the world around them.
— William LoganWriting a poem is like cutting into the soft, tender heart of life, and finding meaning where it wasn’t before.
— William LoganA poet is someone who can see the world differently and translate that vision into words.
— William Logan