Defined Quote by Christopher Logue

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we…

— Robert Morgan

It's not easy to define poetry.

— Bob Dylan

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

— Laura Riding

In order for poetry to exist there has to be not-poetry to contrast it with.

— Elaine Equi

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

— Lascelles Abercrombie

For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

— F. R. Leavis

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

— John Drinkwater

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

— Herbert McCabe

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

— Charles Simic

I keep trying to define poetry, but its so difficult.

— Jack Gleeson

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

— Dennis Gabor