Audience Quote by Douglas Dunn

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what…

— Matthea Harvey

Poetry has a small audience, but a large influence.

— Genevieve Taggard

If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.

— Anonymous

A poem can use anything to talk about anything.

— Jane Hirshfield

If you can explain a poem, it is not a poem. Poetry has to be inexplicable.

— Luis Gonzalez

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of…

— Vernon Lee

It is very difficult to explain poetry. You have to understand the poetry and figure out your own take and your relatability.

— Shoojit Sircar

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

— F. R. Leavis

I believe that poetry is a picture painted in colourful words. If your poem doesn't move you, then don't expect it to shake the…

— Thabang Tshabalala

For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.

— Dana Goodyear

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

— Charles Bukowski

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

— Charles Simic