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Poetry takes on meaning when it becomes one metaphor.

— Jeremy Limn

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

— A. E. Housman

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

— Charles Simic

Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.

— Robert Frost

Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm,…

— Sven Birkerts

Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible.

— Tavares Strachan

“Poetry, in its own way, is a carrier of the sparks, because it too comes out of silence, seeking connection with unseen others.”

— Adrienne Rich

For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Poetry teaches us things that cannot be learned in prose, such as certain kinds of irony or the importance of the unsaid. The most…

— Sam Hamill

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

— Edward Young

“The poet lives and writes at the frontier between deep internal experience and the revelations of the outer world. There is no going back…

— David Whyte

The spark of true poetry flashes when ideas are juxtaposed that no one has yet thought of bringing together.

— J. M. Coetzee