Poetry Quote by Emily Horner

“That's what poems are for, so you don't understand a thing.”

— Tatyana Tolstaya

“They call it poetry, what she feels with her mouth closed. By his.”

— self

“Poetry is anything you read out loud alone.”

— David Gordon

“She's an irritating, opinionated woman, a type Buddy can't stand. I don't think he could see her for what she is. A person, deprived,…

— J.D. Salinger

“Do you know what people do when they read poetry?  They try to figure out what was going on in the poet’s head, and…

— Debora Geary

“also, the oldest notion still in vogue is that if you can’t understand a poem then it almost certainly is a good one.”

— Charles Bukowski

“There are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them... Why can't poets just say what they want to say…

— Gary D. Schmidt

“There was a time when I do not understand poetry.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Poetry is sometimes cryptic because we don’t always want things easily understood. Painful truth is hard enough as it is, but sometimes we want…

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“You poets are accustomed to finding words for everything beautiful and you don’t even grant that people have hearts if they are less talkative…

— Hermann Hesse

“Poetry can have varied and useful functions; and seduction is apparently something worth writing poetry for.”

— Shira Wolosky