Complicated Quote by Marie Howe

Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire life turns.

— Kevin Hart

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

— Charles Simic

Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.

— Adrienne Rich

Poems are difficult to silence.

— Stephen Greenblatt

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

— Jean Cocteau

This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not…

— Dylan Thomas

“Poetry is the wailing of a broken heart―the etched sorrows of despairing souls.  These artful words are an exclamation in rare colors expressed noiselessly…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

A poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will make its own way…

— Dorianne Laux

“There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden. Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable.”

— Toba Beta

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

— Anonymous

A lot of people are writing poems and don't realize it. They have this limited idea of how the poem should sound or what…

— Matthea Harvey

What poetry is asking us to accept can be difficult. Our proximity to our mortality, the fragility of our existence, how close we live…

— Matthew Zapruder