Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experi… — Quoted

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

Charles Simic · Poetry

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Charles Simic

Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.

Poetry

John Drinkwater

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.

Poetry

Jordin Sparks

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.

Poetry

A. R. Ammons

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

Poetry