Funny Quote by Rumi

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

— Karl Shapiro

For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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 not the thing said, but the way of saying it.

— A. E. Housman

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

“The poet lives and writes at the frontier between deep internal experience and the revelations of the outer world. There is no going back…

— David Whyte

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

— J. Patrick Lewis

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

— Charles Bukowski

when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it…

— Sybil Marshall

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.

— Diane Wakoski

“Poetry is a will to put things right, an imaginary solution, a way of avoiding a catastrophe that already happened. Poetry is an escape,…

— Aase Berg

What can be explained is not poetry.

— Anonymous