Bones Quote by Rita Dove

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

— David Biespiel

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

— Ezra Pound

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem,…

— Sakyong Mipham

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

Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

— Gertrude Stein

“Poetry rhymes, a song our souls need to nourish upon. Poetry is a drum, a sound our bodies wish to have. Poetry is organized,…

— Gloria D. Gonsalves

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

— John Drinkwater

Poetry is easier to learn than prose. Once you have learned it you can use it as a light and a laser. It shows…

— Jeanette Winterson

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 a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.

— Fleur Adcock

Poetry is one of the most full ways of discovering what it feels like to be a human being in this particular moment, in…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the…

— Paul Engle