Ah! poetry makes life what light and music do the…

It makes sense to work towards a better world, but it doesn't make any sense to have illusions about what the real world is.

— Noam Chomsky

Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light…

— Dan Flavin

Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

— Charles Dickens

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

— Maxine Kumin

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

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

— Howard Nemerov

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

— Lipman Bers

Poetry and code - and mathematics - make us read differently from other forms of writing. Written poetry makes the silent reader read three…

— Stephanie Strickland

“Boris Pasternak said that poetry makes itself from the relationship between the sounds and the meanings of words.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“For poetry makes nothing happen: it survives In the valley of its making where executives Would never want to tamper, flows on south From…

— W.H. Auden

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

— Carol Ann Duffy

“Good poetry makes the universe reveal a secret.”

— Hafiz

Poetry makes people nervous. Especially in schools.

— Sarah Kay

Poetry can save the world. I'm a real believer in its power of healing and transforming. I wish more people read it ... Poetry…

— Carol Muske-Dukes

Poetry at least in my own life, is really about your own mortality. Everything in poetry makes me think of my mortality. It is…

— Keith Carter