Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.

In science one tries to tell people in such a way as to be understood by everyone something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry it's the exact opposite.

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

The Bible should be taught but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction myth poetry anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.

A poem can have an impact but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.

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.

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.

The secret of living in peace with all people lies in the art of understanding each one by his own individuality.