Darkness Quote by Amanda Gorman

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

— Edgar Allan Poe

My life's purpose is to write poetry - but behind the poetry must be the vision of a fresh revelation for men.

— William Soutar

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

— Czeslaw Milosz

The spiritual desire for poetry can be overwhelming, so much do I need it to experience and name my own perilous depths and vast…

— Edward Hirsch

With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not they cannot…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of…

— Mike Young

Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.

— Gwen Harwood

I wrote poetry in a secretive way, I think, a secret from myself, I mean. I wrote it because it gave me great pleasure…

— Philip Schultz

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

— Jim Morrison

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

— Ed Westwick

I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression…

— Alfred Nobel

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge