Capable Quote by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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

— F. R. Leavis

“Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own.”

— Maya Angelou

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence.

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry must be simple, sensuous, or impassioned.

— Emma Lazarus

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the…

— Wislawa Szymborska

“Poetry survives because it haunts and it haunts because it is simultaneously utterly clear and deeply mysterious; because it cannot be entirely accounted for,…

— Louise Glück

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

— William Shenstone

No time for poetry but exactly what is.

— Jack Kerouac

Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.

— Peter J. Daniels

“Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficult”

— Rayvon L. Browne