Adequate Quote by Kevin Hart

Every poem holds the unspeakable inside it. The unsayable... The thing that you can't really say because it's too complicated. It's too complex for…

— Marie Howe

Many a poem is marred by a superfluous word.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.

— Henry David Thoreau

I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.

— Jorge Luis Borges

I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.

— Jean Cocteau

A decade ago, my poems were precious little boxes, small and claustrophobic, completely inward gazing. I didn't possess the command to speak beyond the…

— Robin Beth Schaer

I am overwhelmed by the beautiful disorder of poetry, the eternal virginity of words.

— Theodore Roethke

What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.

— Octavio Paz

Through revision, I enter the realm of the unspeakable and find the words that have eluded me.

— Terry Tempest Williams

A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain.

— David Whyte

Every word was once a poem.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson