I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than…

... in a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps…

— Adrienne Rich

There is a social responsibility to take care of vulnerable people. It seems that a sensible social responsibility is obligatory education, but also decent…

— Noam Chomsky

So if people have an opportunity for a decent job, a decent education, a decent health care system and security, I know that forceful…

— Nayib Bukele

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Water and our necessary food are the only things that wise men must fight for.

— Plutarch

I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don't mean that everyone can write poetry…

— Adrienne Rich

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an…

— Abraham Maslow

Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single "I" or from any one position. I want…

— Adrienne Rich

To me, video games aren't something as necessary as food or sleep, but they're just as important as delicious food, drinks, afternoon naps, walks,…

— Hidetaka Suehiro

“Cultivation of the mind is as necessary as food to the body”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I learned from my two years' experience that it would cost incredibly little trouble to obtain one's necessary food; that a man may use…

— Henry David Thoreau

Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.

— Henry Beston

In a lethal world, poetry is necessary for survival.

— Mary Caroline Richards

Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.

— Naomi Shihab Nye

From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.

— Natasha Trethewey