Creativity Quote by Anonymous

Poetry is a life-cherishing force.

— Mary Oliver

By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry…

— David Whyte

Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death

— Ruben Dario

Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.

— George Orwell

Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never…

— David Whyte

I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger…

— C. K. Williams

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

— Archibald MacLeish

Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I love that people want to know about poetry. It's one of the ways of keeping alive.

— Joan Larkin

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

— Clive James

I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.

— Michael Longley

I believe that poetry is a picture painted in colourful words. If your poem doesn't move you, then don't expect it to shake the…

— Thabang Tshabalala