Poetry Prayer Quotes

Poetry and prayer are very similar

— Carol Ann Duffy

I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.

— Derek Walcott

“Poetry and prayer put ideas in people’s heads that got them killed, distracting them from the ruthless mechanism of the world. After”

— Colson Whitehead

“Poetry is a prayer.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Poetry to me is prayer.

— Anne Sexton