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Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths.

— Carl Sandburg

I've always felt that poetry is the enemy of silence, but of course, in the right moments, silence can be useful. The trick is…

— Cornelius Eady

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

— Charles Simic

Poetry is the deification of reality.

— Edith Sitwell

At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that…

— Joseph Brodsky

Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

— Robert Frost

It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us.

— Robert Hass

Poetry is an orphan of silence.

— Charles Simic

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

— Isaac Newton

Poetry is simply literature reduced to the essence of its active principle. It is purged of idols of every kind, of realistic illusions, of…

— Paul Valery