Art Quote by Joseph Brodsky

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.

— Matthew Arnold

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

— Ezra Pound

As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

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

— David Biespiel

Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.

— F. R. Leavis

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

— Rita Dove

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 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 communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

— John Drinkwater

Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion;…

— Anonymous

Poetry is a language used in a different way.

— Anonymous