Explained Quote by Anne Hebert

What can be explained is not poetry.

— Anonymous

It is very difficult to explain poetry. You have to understand the poetry and figure out your own take and your relatability.

— Shoojit Sircar

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

— Charles Bukowski

Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.

— Emma Lazarus

If you can explain a poem, it is not a poem. Poetry has to be inexplicable.

— Luis Gonzalez

It's not easy to define poetry.

— Bob Dylan

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

— Edward Young

All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow.

— Robert Browning

Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.

— Henry Beston

Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is not a way of saying things; it's a way of seeing things.

— Karl Shapiro

Poetry cannot be defined, only experienced

— Christopher Logue