Quotes About Communication

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.

we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.

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

The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it sets in motion...elements in the reader that would otherwise remain stagnant.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.

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

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.

Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto the page.

Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.

Poetry is language trying to become bodily experience.

If what has happened in the one person were communicated directly to the other, all art would collapse, all the effects of art would disappear.

When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.

Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.