Quotes About Clarity

In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.

Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

Poetry's work is the clarification and magnification of being.

I'd rather call prose poems something else, for clarity - something like "poetic prose," prose that contains a quality of poetry, but not poems.

I don't want to bury anything in poetry.

poetry ... shows with a sudden intense clarity what is already there.

No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.

Prizes aren't essential. What is essential is poetry itself, it's what is said, it is clarity, it's loyalty, those are the essential values, the literary values.

Poetry, unlike oratory, should not aim at clarity... but be dense with meaning, 'something to be chewed and digested'.

People in power tend to find poetry dangerous to them because it is dislocating, they can't catch it, can't control it. They prefer coherence, what's blunt and has clarity.

Poetry has a way of teaching one what one needs to know ... if one is honest.

Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Faith has answers that the ears can't always hear.

We live longerbut less preciselyand in shorter sentences.

You'd think hindsight would do us some goodBut all it does sometimesIs add glass to the kaleidoscope

Purity is defined by the clearness of the stars

Speak without words. Know the weight of words

In times of crisis, it is of utmost importance to keep one's head.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

My walk had purpose, my steps were quick and light, and I held firmly to what I felt was right.

If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether.

A Constitution should be short and obscure.