Understanding poetry quotes:

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  • To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity. -- George Gissing
  • Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding. -- Peter Davison
  • 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. -- A. E. Housman
  • Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world. -- Peter Davison
  • I see poetry as a path toward new understanding and transformation, and so I've looked at specific poems I love, and at poetry's gestures in the broadest sense, in an effort to feel and learn what they offer from the inside. -- Jane Hirshfield
  • I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the theatricality, the poetry and soul of the wire. And you cannot be a wire-walker without mingling those two ways of seeing life. -- Philippe Petit
  • Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive. -- Archibald MacLeish
  • Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought. -- Dana Gioia
  • Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding. -- Nicholas Sparks
  • 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. -- A. E. Housman
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