Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by…

Just because somebody drops in on you from another dimension, don't assume they're wiser than you about anything at all, or that they can…

— Richard Bach

A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example…

— Jonathan Swift

Women are of two sorts. Some of them are wiser, better learned, discreeter, and more constant than a number of men. But another and…

— John Aylmer

May I govern my passion with absolute sway, And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away

— Walter Pope

“We live in a beautiful and wonderful world, Demi, and the more you now about it the wiser and the better you will be.”

— Louisa May Alcott

If only we were wiser or better people, perhaps the gods would explain to us the mad, unbearable things they do.

— Orson Scott Card

“so my wish for the older wiser better looking you, is that you do go out and explore life in all the different ways…

— Paul Doan

“Live, learn, grow, move forward. Do you. Don't complain, just get smarter, wiser, better.”

— Germany Kent

Each day is an opportunity to be stronger, wiser and better.

— Tawney Sablan

Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better. Knowing…

— Malcolm Forbes

The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.

— Wallace Stevens

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

— Muhammad Iqbal

The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to stain its…

— Eduardo Galeano

I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad…

— Vikram Seth