Communication Quote by Sonia Sanchez

Poetry is a lyrical insinuation. Often, its melodic subtlety kisses the subconscious mind.

— Masiela Lusha

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

— William Hughes Mearns

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what…

— Allen Ginsberg

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

— C.D. Wright

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

— John Drinkwater

We do inherently know that poetry is about the way we speak. It's about where we pause, where we drop our words in the…

— Jacqueline Woodson

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

— Dennis Gabor

Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a learned skill to force yourself to…

— David Whyte

Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

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

— Andrei Tarkovsky

So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue…

— June Jordan

To me, poetry is a recreation, a renewal of language... The subtlety of what words mean and the fact that you write something and…

— Mary Ann Hoberman