Ambiguous Quote by James Arthur

If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

— William Butler Yeats

The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.

— Nikki Giovanni

The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry.

— William Empson

The meaning of poetry has no sureness of direction; is like the sling, it is not under control.

— Rumi

Poetry forces a writer to condense and crystallise his thoughts and often represents a short cut to truths unsuspected by the author himself.

— Felix Dennis

The ambiguity of poetic language answers to the ambiguity of human life as a whole, and therein lies its unique value. All interpretations of…

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

Certain supplementary restrictions imposed on the text compel us to perceive it as poetry. As soon as one assigns a given text to the…

— Yuri Lotman

This capacity for oversignifying, for reading in, is precisely what poets tap into, both in their own practice and in the poem the give…

— Don Paterson

Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extra-poetic ends, constitutes misuse.

— Jan Clausen

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

— James Schuyler

Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.

— Samuel Prout