All things Quote by Paul Claudel

If you can explain a poem, it is not a poem. Poetry has to be inexplicable.

— Luis Gonzalez

Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.

— Plato

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of…

— Vernon Lee

Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

— Carl Sandburg

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

— Shoojit Sircar

What can be explained is not poetry.

— Anonymous

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

— Edward Young

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

— Charles Bukowski

My message is not wholly understood; only poets understand it.

— Miguel Serrano

“too much explanation can take the pleasure out of any poetry. (Preface, vii)”

— Harold G. Henderson

I can explain all the poems that were ever invented - and a good many that haven't been invented just yet.

— Lewis Carroll