Art Quote by David Whyte

I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.

— Jean Cocteau

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

— John Drinkwater

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once…

— Anonymous

Poems are difficult to silence.

— Stephen Greenblatt

when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it…

— Sybil Marshall

Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal -…

— May Sarton

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

— Horace

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.

— Diane Wakoski

“Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficult”

— Rayvon L. Browne

Poetry is not a way of saying things; it's a way of seeing things.

— Karl Shapiro

Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.

— Henry Beston