Art Quote by Allen Ginsberg

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

— David Biespiel

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

— John Drinkwater

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.

— Fleur Adcock

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

— Sonia Sanchez

Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep love for…

— Dorianne Laux

Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for the people.…

— Patti Smith

Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue…

— June Jordan

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

— William Hughes Mearns

Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to…

— Mattie Stepanek

As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us…

— Naomi Shihab Nye