I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate…

Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell developed civilizations…

— Northrop Frye

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.

— Peter Davison

“I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full of stars and falseness.”

— Charles Bukowski

I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language. It does demand a…

— Edward Hirsch

“I bleed on paper, they think it's poetry.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but…

— Diane Wakoski

I think poetry will survive and I don't think it will be the end of poetry. Our tremendous onslaught of mass media all the…

— Edward Hirsch

I don't think poetry has a readership anywhere, really, that's that big.

— Derek Walcott

I think poetry can be a kind of secular way in which people can be led to approach the difficult parts of their life,…

— Kevin Hart

I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger…

— C. K. Williams

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

I think poetry involves heightened noticing or imagining as well as creating a certain made shape. On the other hand, that shape can be…

— Matthea Harvey

I suppose there's something to be said for the sheer reinforcement of our beliefs, but really I think poetry is more useful as disenchantment…

— Robert Hass

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 is like walking along a little, tiny, narrow ridge up on a precipice. You never know the next step, whether there's going to…

— Josephine Jacobsen