Certain Quote by John Drinkwater

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 an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep love for…

— Dorianne Laux

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what…

— Allen Ginsberg

Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what…

— Wes Nisker

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

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process of knowing by means of language.

— Mark Doty

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 an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

— David Biespiel

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

— Sonia Sanchez

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

— Ezra Pound

Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“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