Chaos Quote by Stephen Spender

Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent puzzle. Offer…

— Lucinda Williams

But to do its noticing and judging, poetry balances itself on the pinprick of the moment. Slowing down, stopping yourself completely, to read and…

— Ian Mcewan

“also, the oldest notion still in vogue is that if you can’t understand a poem then it almost certainly is a good one.”

— Charles Bukowski

It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.

— Anonymous

ONCE WHEN I WAS ninth grade i had to write a paper on a poem. One of the lines was"If your eyes weren't open…

— Richelle Mead

I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual…

— Eavan Boland

I write poetry to figure things out. It's what I use as a navigating tool in my life, so when there's something that I…

— Sarah Kay

“Don't just read to read. Read to understand.”

— Jill Telford

“God intended for everyone to be able to read and understand his Word. The”

— Max Lucado

Take time to read and understand it is the formation of wisdom

— Anonymous

I like to read and understand.

— Ander Herrera

“Poems are surmountable. They have rhymes and rhythms to help you make meaning. They're short enough. . . to read and reread until you've…

— Laurie Frankel