Brainwash Quote by Allen Ginsberg

Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.

— Thomas Carlyle

The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person...

— Czeslaw Milosz

Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal -…

— May Sarton

Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm,…

— Sven Birkerts

Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use…

— Mahmoud Darwish

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familiar, eternalizing the poet's own perception in unique and…

— Philip Larkin

Poetry is a life-cherishing force.

— Mary Oliver

Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.

— James Dickey

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of messages.”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages. ”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

— William Wordsworth

Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.

— Adrian Mitchell