Art Quote by Jean Genet

Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.

— Nathalie Sarraute

For me, the poetry in a work is that which makes visible the invisible.

— Nathalie Sarraute

Poetry is a world seen through the eyes of the soul, writing in its being...

— Mariana Fulger

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

— Horace

Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light.

— J. Patrick Lewis

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a release of something previously unknown into the visible. You write to invite that, to make of yourself a gathering of the…

— Jane Hirshfield

Poetry is a projection across silence of cadences arranged to break that silence with definite intentions of echoes, syllables, wave lengths.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

— Carl Sandburg

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

Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon