Constantly Quote by Vicente Aleixandre

“What is poetry? you ask, while fixing your blue pupil on mine. What is poetry! And you are asking me? Poetry...is you.”

— Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

People have explored these questions ['Why am I here?', 'What is life about?'] in poems, not that they found their answers, but in reading…

— Gwee Li Sui

Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

Poetry has in a way been my bridge to my acting career. I had so many questions about my life, so I took to…

— Omari Hardwick

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

— Herbert McCabe

Poetry is a lyrical insinuation. Often, its melodic subtlety kisses the subconscious mind.

— Masiela Lusha

The poem is a process, a way for me to discover questions, to ask them clearly or to discover the results of certain suppositions.…

— Pattiann Rogers

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

— William Hughes Mearns

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or…

— Galway Kinnell

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