Communication Quote by Jill Scott

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

— William Hughes Mearns

Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way…

— Rita Dove

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.

— Anonymous

I feel like the older I get, the truer it feels that I'm only going have an investment in a poem if it allows…

— Tracy K. Smith

Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

— Sonia Sanchez

Poetry connects you to yourself, to the self that doesn't know how to talk or negotiate.

— Rita Dove

I love being part of poetry conversations. I love talking about what I've read.

— Victoria Chang

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind.

— Edward Hirsch

I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... or lay down on a couch, and…

— Allen Ginsberg

Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.

— Fleur Adcock

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem,…

— Sakyong Mipham

Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible…

— Robert Frost