Knowing Quote by Mark Doty

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

— Herbert McCabe

Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.

— John Drinkwater

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Poetry is a language used in a different way.

— Anonymous

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

— Ezra Pound

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

— David Biespiel

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

— Robert Morgan

Poetry is a very complex art… It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

— Ezra Pound

Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep love for…

— Dorianne Laux

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

— William Wordsworth

Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto the page.

— Li-Young Lee

Poetry uses language to create a music borne inside human experiences and emotions.

— Pattiann Rogers