Attention Quote by A. R. Ammons

Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.

— Toi Derricotte

Poetry has a small audience, but a large influence.

— Genevieve Taggard

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves

— Lorna Goodison

The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. I…

— W. H. Auden

As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being,…

— T. S. Eliot

If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.

— Anonymous

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

— Paul Muldoon

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry

— Saul Williams

Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.

— Edwin Morgan