Asks Quote by Plato

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

— Shoojit Sircar

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

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

— Luis Gonzalez

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

What can be explained is not poetry.

— Anonymous

You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable.

— Paul Claudel

If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

— William Butler Yeats

Even a poet cannot get everything right.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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

— Miguel Serrano

I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.

— Carl Sandburg

You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The…

— Rick Riordan

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

— Carl Sandburg