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It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.

— Samantha Morton

“Prose Poems from my book SPAN OBSERVATION So, we may not be able to explain the world. Not exactly. But we can accept it,…

— Jay Woodman

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do…

— Christopher Fry

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of…

— Vernon Lee

Poems give us permission to be unsure, in ways we must be if we are ever to learn anything not already known. If you…

— Jane Hirshfield

I want to reiterate that my understanding of the poem is not the poem's core, true meaning. Once a poem goes out into the…

— James Arthur

It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.

— Michel de Montaigne

The poem of the understanding is philosophy.

— Novalis

Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not…

— Seamus Heaney

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out . . .. Perfect understanding will…

— A. E. Housman

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

— Wallace Stevens

We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for the poet…

— Juan Felipe Herrera