Books Quote by Anonymous

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on…

— Seamus Heaney

Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.

— Wallace Stevens

Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not…

— Seamus Heaney

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

— Georges Simenon

For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are…

— Adrienne Rich

Poetry increases the feeling for reality.

— Wallace Stevens

“Some people react physically to the magic of poetry, to the moments, that is, of authentic revelation, of the communication, the sharing , at…

— Dylan Thomas

The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it…

— Denise Levertov

On the one hand poetry is useless. It can't change the world materially. On the other hand it is a basic part of human…

— Bei Dao

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

Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into…

— Michael Tippett

Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the…

— Germaine Greer