Depends Quote by Peter J. Daniels

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

— Horace

Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.

— Jean Genet

Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in…

— Diane Ackerman

The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Poetry is what makes the invisible appear.

— Nathalie Sarraute

Poetry is not a way of saying things; it's a way of seeing things.

— Karl Shapiro

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

— John Drinkwater

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

— Charles Bukowski

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what…

— Allen Ginsberg

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun