Logic Quote by Edward Young

How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.

— John Lennon

Not even the great poets can explain in words what poetry is. Do you know why? Because poetry is indeed like love, that is,…

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

There is a kind of poetry in simple fact.

— Edward Abbey

What can be explained is not poetry.

— Anonymous

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into…

— Michael Tippett

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

Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created.

— Robert Bridges

Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible.

— Tavares Strachan

It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think…

— James Schuyler

But the summits of poetry are mysteries; they are shiftingly veiled, and those who catch the glimpses see different aspects of the transcendental; but…

— Ruth Pitter

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

— David Whyte

Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is…

— Edward Hirsch