Poetry Quote by Thomas Harrison

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

— John Drinkwater

Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.

— F. R. Leavis

My message is not wholly understood; only poets understand it.

— Miguel Serrano

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

— Robert Morgan

“If we leave that general descriptive talk where everything which looks like a poem can be called a poem and turn instead to normative…

— Lars Gustafsson

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.

— Wallace Stevens

when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it…

— Sybil Marshall

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

— Edward Young

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

— T. S. Eliot

“Poetry wasn't written to be analysed: it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.”

— Nicholas Sparks

“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

The poem is a structure of signifiers which absorbs and reconstitutes the signified.

— Jonathan Culler