Art Quote by David Whyte

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

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.

— Adrienne Rich

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

— Sonia Sanchez

We do inherently know that poetry is about the way we speak. It's about where we pause, where we drop our words in the…

— Jacqueline Woodson

To me, poetry is a recreation, a renewal of language... The subtlety of what words mean and the fact that you write something and…

— Mary Ann Hoberman

Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep love for…

— Dorianne Laux

Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process of knowing by means of language.

— Mark Doty

To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience another life…

— Ai Weiwei

Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of…

— Mike Young

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

— John Drinkwater

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

— William Hughes Mearns