Learning Quote by A. E. Housman

The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

— Sonia Sanchez

Poetry is meant to inspire readers and listeners, to connect them more deeply to themselves even as it links them more fully to others.…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

— Archibald MacLeish

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

What is the point of narrating poetry when the listener can't appreciate and enjoy the meaning?

— Brahmanandam

Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible.

— Tavares Strachan

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

All poetry is supposed to be instructive but in an unnoticeable manner; it is supposed to make us aware of what it would be…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most…

— A. E. Housman

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

— Brooks Atkinson

The secret of understanding poetry is to hear poetry's words as what they are: the full self's most intimate speech, half waking, half dream.…

— Jane Hirshfield