Apprehension Quote by Dorianne Laux

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 a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to…

— Mattie Stepanek

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

— Ezra Pound

Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

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

— David Biespiel

Poetry is a way of being alone without feeling alone. It allows you to experience another mind, I suppose. And it does that more…

— Nick Laird

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

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Poetry is something that disturbs the mainstream with minor things and it is something that breaks down active discrimination with passive things, and it…

— Kim Hyesoon

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

— John Drinkwater

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem,…

— Sakyong Mipham

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the…

— Paul Engle

Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel