Learning Quote by Linda Stitt

It is very difficult to explain poetry. You have to understand the poetry and figure out your own take and your relatability.

— Shoojit Sircar

The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what…

— Peter Davison

“The human spirit is poetry enough and I understand that, but I write to make it transparent to a world in love with bright…

— Christopher Poindexter

When I get interested in a new topic I teach a class on it. There's a graduate seminar I teach in which the students…

— Matthea Harvey

“What I have lately said of painting is equally true with respect to poetry. It is only necessary for us to know what is…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“*Okay, you make eating hos sound pretty. talk poetry to me, writer boy.*”

— Christopher Moore

I myself always want to talk about "poetry," not "the poem."

— Paul Fry

“it’s not necessarily helpful to talk about poetry as if it were a device to be assembled or a religious experience to be undergone.…

— David Orr

“Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked in poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day, or Warren's blackin' or Rowland's oil, or some o' them…

— Charles Dickens

“Robert Frost didn’t like to explain his poems—and for good reason: to explain a poem is to suck the air from its lungs. This…

— Tony Leuzzi

My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about…

— Peter Davison

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

Don't talk to me any more about poetry for months -- unless it is other men's work. I really love verse, even rubbish. But…

— D. H. Lawrence

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

No, I didn't forget Samoan - I understand it when you talk to me but, you know, to put phrases together I sound like…

— Junior Seau