Break Quote by Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the silence and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of that flower.

— Carl Sandburg

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

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is so close to music, not just in cadence and sound but in silences. That's why, to me, I can't talk about prose…

— Pattiann Rogers

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.

— Anonymous

“A poetic form is essentially a codified pattern of silence. We have a little silence at the end of a line, a bigger one…

— Don Paterson

The meaning of a poem is in the cadences and the shape of the lines and the pulse of the thought which is given…

— George Oppen

Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in…

— Diane Ackerman

Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.

— Fleur Adcock

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

— John Drinkwater

Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.

— Jean Genet

Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.

— George Santayana