I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can…

To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.

— Rita Mae Brown

The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which…

— Audre Lorde

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry…

— Jordin Sparks

“What an incredible amount of poetry, of novels, of sociological solutions to the ills of the world! One supposes that poetry is written to…

— Augusto Monterroso

Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.

— A. E. Housman

Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.

— Natasha Trethewey

I was doing a poetry thing in Tottenham and I remember walking down this road looking for the address, the pub where it was…

— Tim Key

Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.

— Roberto Bolaño

The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.

— Lana Del Rey

“Aimlessly It pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. No One listens to poetry. — from "Thing Language”

— Jack Spicer

Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets; and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God…

— Philip James Bailey

The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.

— Seamus Heaney

“Stop. Watch. Listen. There’s poetry all over. And the thing about poetry? It don’t write itself.”

— Bethany House Publishers

But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.

— Philip Levine

Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy…

— Naomi Klein