Lost Quote by W. S. Merwin

Poetry is not a way of saying things; it's a way of seeing things.

— Karl Shapiro

Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.

— A. E. Housman

You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.

— Sherman Alexie

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

— Charles Simic

Poetry is a language for when you can't quite write prose about something, you can't quite say it, but if you do a poem,…

— Sakyong Mipham

Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth.

— Gunter Brus

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

— Charles Bukowski

Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

— Sonia Sanchez

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.

— Diane Wakoski

Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words.

— Robert Frost

Poetry is a language used in a different way.

— Anonymous