“Why should poetry have to make sense?”– Charlie Chaplin Related Quotes “The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can’t touch.”– E. M. Forster “Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.”– Toi Derricotte “In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.”– Richard M. Nixon