Quotes About Understanding

Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable.

Poetry and philosophy will become friends.

I write in order to comprehend, not to express myself.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

We love the things we love for what they are.

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.

Anger is easier than forgiveness.

A poet's job is to find a name for everything: to be a fearless finder of the names of things.

Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

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

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

We suffer each other to have each other a while.

And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.

Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

Life is a poem most people never read.

Verse is a mechanism by which we can create interpretative illusions suggesting profoundities of response and understanding which far exceed the engagement or research of the writer.

It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.