Has beens Quote by Sybil Marshall

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

— Ezra Pound

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

— A. E. Housman

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

— David Biespiel

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

— John Drinkwater

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

— Karl Shapiro

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

“Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own.”

— Maya Angelou

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it…

— Harold Bloom

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

— Diane Wakoski

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

— Lascelles Abercrombie

A poem is a small machine made of words. . .Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character.

— William Carlos Williams

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

— Charles Bukowski