“A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.”– Thomas Harrison Related Quotes “All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”– Edgar Allan Poe “Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.”– Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel “On the other hand, if there’s an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I’ve lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.”– Richard Serra