Communication Quote by Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths.

— Carl Sandburg

“Poetry is when emotion blooms like flowers with the petals of words and spreads the fragrance of perception.”

— Debasish Mridha

Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.

— Carolyn Forche

Poetry is an orphan of silence.

— Charles Simic

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

— John Drinkwater

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

— Charles Simic

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.

— Anonymous

Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet…

— Boris Pasternak

“Poetry is the wailing of a broken heart―the etched sorrows of despairing souls.  These artful words are an exclamation in rare colors expressed noiselessly…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Poems are difficult to silence.

— Stephen Greenblatt

Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the…

— Jane Hirshfield

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

— David Biespiel