Definitions Quote by Thom Gunn

I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.

— Jack Gleeson

I keep trying to define poetry, but its so difficult.

— Jack Gleeson

It's not easy to define poetry.

— Bob Dylan

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

— Walter Mosley

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

— Shoojit Sircar

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 the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

— Archibald MacLeish

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

— Ezra Pound

Poetry is ... the physical enactment of a process of knowing by means of language.

— Mark Doty

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we…

— Robert Morgan

Poetry is an investigation, not an expression, of what you know.

— Mark Doty

“Poetry rhymes, a song our souls need to nourish upon. Poetry is a drum, a sound our bodies wish to have. Poetry is organized,…

— Gloria D. Gonsalves