Poetry is not life. Life is poetry.

“A life without poetry is a life without heart, without laughter, without crying - it's a life without feelings.”

— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.

— Peter Davison

The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves and their…

— William Osler

I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art…

— Anne Stevenson

Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.

— Walter Savage Landor

The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

— Louise Glück

If I had life to live over again, I would give my life to poetry, to music, to literature, and to art to make…

— Charles Darwin

I'm a poet, and I spent my life in poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

“Everyone's life is a poetry rhymed with sweet and bitter words, rhythmed with moments.”

— Robert Ahanes

My research is like my feeling, directed towards what is the principle value in the life--the poetry.

— Le Corbusier

“Poet' had always sounded like a profession to me, or a talent. But the dead American [Muriel Rukeyser, The Life of Poetry] made it…

— Ariel Gore

“But that's a good match for the way I've always approached life. I've always believed in motion and action, in following connections wherever they…

— Jay-Z

“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the…

— Walt Whitman

“What would it profit us, after all, even from a purely practical viewpoint, if we stripped life of all poetry, all dreams, all beautiful…

— Knut Hamsun

“That’s the beauty of poetry,” I said. “That language is inadequate to describe life. So poetry just tries to bring up emotions. Just read…

— Victor Methos