We agreed that the novel is absolutely the only vehicle for the thought of our day.

-Ford, Ford Madox originally Ford Hermann Hueffer
  Joseph Conrad,  a Personal Remembrance, pt.3.

No one can read a poem unless he realises that it is a physical object as well as an abstract vehicle for conveying ideas. A poem has a material existence like a piece of music or sculpture or a plate of meat.

-MacBeth, George Mann
  Introduction to Poetry1900 to1965.