Clear Quote by Aristotle

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

— Voltaire

Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.

— Joseph Brodsky

When I began to dare to be clear, because I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed. You're out…

— Billy Collins

An underestimated element in poetry, that reading aloud makes clear, is the pause. I mean especially the force of a pause or a couple…

— Robert Pinsky

One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear.

— Mary Oliver

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

— Anonymous

I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed. You're out in the open field. You're actually saying things that…

— Billy Collins

Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.

— F. R. Leavis

Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.

— Emma Lazarus

Poetry doesn't function by saying things straightforwardly because the language is too imprecise, too limited often, to address the underlying subject of most poems.

— Pattiann Rogers

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

— Robert Morgan

Poetry is not a silent art. The poem must perform, unaided, in its reader's head. Educated readers give themselves a good performance. Educated listeners…

— Christopher Logue