Communication Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Good poetry seems so simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry…

— Henry David Thoreau

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

— Charles Bukowski

Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.

— A. E. Housman

Poetry is not a luxury.

— Audre Lorde

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

— Anonymous

I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.

— Jean Cocteau

Poetry is not a way of saying things; it's a way of seeing things.

— Karl Shapiro

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

— William Hughes Mearns

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.

— Sylvia Plath

Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.

— Patti Smith

“Poetry rhymes, a song our souls need to nourish upon. Poetry is a drum, a sound our bodies wish to have. Poetry is organized,…

— Gloria D. Gonsalves