Capacity Quote by Umberto Eco

Poetic effect is the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures.

— Dan Sperber

If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.

— Anonymous

Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm,…

— Sven Birkerts

Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.

— George Santayana

I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what…

— A. E. Housman

So we start with an oversignifying reader. Those texts that appear to reward this reader for this additional investment - text that we find…

— Don Paterson

For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are…

— Adrienne Rich

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

— F. R. Leavis

One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes…

— Robert Morgan

Certain supplementary restrictions imposed on the text compel us to perceive it as poetry. As soon as one assigns a given text to the…

— Yuri Lotman

A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.

— Douglas Dunn

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

— Edgar Allan Poe