Arranging Quote by Vincent Van Gogh

Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.

— Fleur Adcock

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

Poetry uses language to create a music borne inside human experiences and emotions.

— Pattiann Rogers

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

— John Drinkwater

Poetry is telling something to someone.

— Marie Howe

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

— Maya Angelou

Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music.

— H. L. Mencken

Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.

— Carolyn Forche

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

— David Biespiel

Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

— Jim Harrison

If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language…

— Rita Dove