Attention Quote by Allegra Goodman

Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one.

— Eugenio Montale

“Mathematics isn’t just science, it is poetry – our efforts to crystallise the unglimpsed connections between things. Poetry that bridges and magnifies the mysteries…

— James Luceno

For me, when I started writing, it was mostly poetry. And poetry is very visual. I feel the same way about the way that…

— Lisa Joy

If you take text and image and you put them together, the multiple readings that are possible in either poetry or in something visual…

— Richard Hell

Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell developed civilizations…

— Northrop Frye

Poetry is like walking along a little, tiny, narrow ridge up on a precipice. You never know the next step, whether there's going to…

— Josephine Jacobsen

I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is…

— Erica Jong

I suppose there's something to be said for the sheer reinforcement of our beliefs, but really I think poetry is more useful as disenchantment…

— Robert Hass

I think that poetry is an act of celebration, that anytime you're writing a poem, it means that you're celebrating something, even if it's…

— Sarah Kay

I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.

— Adrienne Rich

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

— Rickie Lee Jones

Poetry can save the world. I'm a real believer in its power of healing and transforming. I wish more people read it ... Poetry…

— Carol Muske-Dukes