Poetry is a means of redemption.

“Your imagination is the instrument, the means, whereby your redemption from slavery, sickness, and poverty is effected. If you refuse to assume the responsibility…

— Neville Goddard

If you become more sensitive to beauty, to poetry, that means your love has blossomed. And all the energy that has been left by…

— Rajneesh

Poetry takes you into the recesses of the language, the neglected corners, cracks and crannies and to the big sky of wonder. It opens…

— C.D. Wright

Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?

— Orson F. Whitney

“Lurking behind this connecting silence is a brooding suspicion over the extent to which the perceptual user-preferences of the human animal limit and distort…

— Don Paterson

“Life is a poem It doesn't give us everything. Just some things. Two sturdy branches. A basket of dawns. If we stitch our web…

— Jarod K. Anderson

So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue…

— June Jordan

“Paranormal. It rolls off the tongue with such poetry but it means something like, beyond normal. There is nothing paranormal about magic. Magic is…

— Marcy L. Peska

Poetry is a satifying of the desire for resemblance.

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world

— Wallace Stevens

The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.

— Wallace Stevens

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

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry is the scholar's art.

— Wallace Stevens

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early…

— Umberto Eco