Communication Quote by Anonymous

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

— Sonia Sanchez

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching…

— Story Musgrave

The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of…

— Edward Hirsch

“To write or read a poem is . . . to enter into a different kind of thought world from our normal patterns. A…

— N.T. Wright

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

— William Hughes Mearns

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of messages.”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

A poem, once it's written, is meant to be read with the inner voice of the person who reads it.

— Tony Harrison

Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it--

— Franz Wright

There's something immediate about the experience of reading a poem. It makes sense in my own mind, but I'm trying to figure out a…

— Kevin Powers

I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them.

— Mary Oliver

A poem, necessarily, sits at a register that's different from our usual conversational voices. You have to listen more actively to get to the…

— Tracy K. Smith

There are definitely connections between poems, but I wanted each to stand on its own. I guess it goes back to the idea of…

— Kevin Powers