Explanation Quote by Stephen King

Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

— Carl Sandburg

What can be explained is not poetry.

— Anonymous

“too much explanation can take the pleasure out of any poetry. (Preface, vii)”

— Harold G. Henderson

poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of…

— Vernon Lee

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

— Edward Young

Poetry cannot be explained, it must be lived.

— Anne Hebert

Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often loses the…

— Dana Gioia

There is a kind of poetry in simple fact.

— Edward Abbey

“The fact that a good poem will never wholly submit to explanation is not its deficiency but its very life. One lives every day…

— John Ciardi

It is very difficult to explain poetry. You have to understand the poetry and figure out your own take and your relatability.

— Shoojit Sircar

Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot.

— Plato

Poetry is mostly hunches.

— John Ashbery