Impossible Quote by Reginald Shepherd

All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow.

— Robert Browning

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

— Charles Bukowski

Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat.

— David Whyte

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.

— Paul Valery

Poetry requires deliberate movement in its direction, a filament of faith in its persistence, receptivity to its fundamental worthwhileness. Within its unanesthetized heart there…

— C.D. Wright

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

— Jean Cocteau

There is but one poetry,--true poetry.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poetry is more a threshold than a path.

— Seamus Heaney

There is a kind of poetry in simple fact.

— Edward Abbey

Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.

— Henry Beston

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

— Karl Shapiro

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

— Charles Simic