Poetry can save the world. I'm a real believer in its…

I read poetry to save time.

— Marilyn Monroe

“Read poetry every day of your life. Poetry is good because it flexes muscles you don’t use often enough. Poetry expands the senses and…

— Ray Bradbury

Sometimes he would advise me to read poetry, and would send me in his letters quantities of verses and whole poems, which he wrote…

— Peter Kropotkin

“I don't have a poetry section in the bookshop. (Don't have but should have, I have begun to think. The poetry, like everything else,…

— Claudia Fitzherbert

We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character, not for comedy, not for a philosophic view of life, but for her poetry.…

— Virginia Woolf

Poetry is probably the one field of writing in which it is a mistake to try to psych out editors. In fact, specific marketing…

— X. J. Kennedy

Poetry is probably the last gift economy. Part of the negotiation is to understand that you're going to do something you really want to…

— Claudia Rankine

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the…

— Philip Levine

The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“As if bad poetry could ever save anyone.”

— Sally Warner

“Recently, a judge of the prestigious 2014 British Forward Prize for Poetry was moved to observe that “there is an awful lot of very…

— Carol Muske-Dukes

“Good poetry makes the universe reveal a secret.”

— Hafiz

... mathematics is very much like poetry ... what makes a good poem -- a great poem -- is that there is a large…

— Lipman Bers

I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.

— Maxine Kumin