Feels Quote by June Jordan

What's the function of poetry? It's to express general truths, to connect with the reader and make him think: 'Wow, I've experienced that, but…

— Giles Andreae

Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to…

— Mattie Stepanek

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

If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language…

— Rita Dove

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

— Anonymous

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

Poetry examines an emotional truth. It's an experience filtered through the personality of the poet. We look to poetry for visions, not scientific truths.…

— Diane Glancy

That's one of those questions that would just love to have a pat answer. You know, poetry's job is to make us feel good.…

— Sam Hamill

Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your…

— Ray Bradbury

You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters…

— Vikram Seth

Poetry is easier to learn than prose. Once you have learned it you can use it as a light and a laser. It shows…

— Jeanette Winterson

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

— Fleur Adcock