Learning Quote by Alan Bennett

“There was a time when I do not understand poetry.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“That's what poems are for, so you don't understand a thing.”

— Tatyana Tolstaya

“Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own.”

— Maya Angelou

“Talk to me in poetry. / It is all I understand.”

— Linda Stitt

“It's the strangest thing about poetry: you can tell it's poetry, even if you don't speak the language.”

— Neil Gaiman

“Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficult”

— Rayvon L. Browne

“I don't know how to write poetry, because I am the poetry.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“There's poetry in everything, everything is music; just listen and you will hear it.”

— Noam Shpancer

“There are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them... Why can't poets just say what they want to say…

— Gary D. Schmidt

“You may be a poet and not even know it.”

— M.L. Shanahan

“also, the oldest notion still in vogue is that if you can’t understand a poem then it almost certainly is a good one.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Why he's a poet, you know, so he may live upon learning.”

— Frances Burney