Attention Quote by Robert Morgan

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

— Ezra Pound

Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process of knowing by means of language.

— Mark Doty

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

— David Biespiel

Poetry is a language used in a different way.

— Anonymous

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise.

— Kenneth Koch

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we…

— Robert Morgan

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is…

— Thomas Lynch

Poetry is the capture of a picture, a song, or a flair, in a deliberate prism of words.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.

— George Santayana

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