Communicate Quote by F. R. Leavis

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

— T. S. Eliot

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

— John Drinkwater

Poetry can magnify experience.

— May Swenson

Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.

— Joseph Brodsky

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

— Laura Riding

Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.

— Muriel Rukeyser

Poetry cannot be defined, only experienced

— Christopher Logue

Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm,…

— Sven Birkerts

Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.

— Emma Lazarus

“Some people react physically to the magic of poetry, to the moments, that is, of authentic revelation, of the communication, the sharing , at…

— Dylan Thomas

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

— Charles Simic