Doe Quote by Karl Shapiro

For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

— Charles Simic

Poetry teaches us things that cannot be learned in prose, such as certain kinds of irony or the importance of the unsaid. The most…

— Sam Hamill

Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest.

— May Sarton

It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do,…

— Ellen Glasgow

Poetic experience is distinct in nature from mystical experience. Because poetry emanates from the free creativity of the spirit,it is from the very start…

— Jacques Maritain

Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in…

— Diane Ackerman

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being,…

— T. S. Eliot

Poetry can magnify experience.

— May Swenson

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

— Dennis Gabor

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

— F. R. Leavis

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

— William Wordsworth