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Poetry is the key to the mind.

— Gaetane Gayot

Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its…

— Babette Deutsch

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

— Gaston Bachelard

Poetry saves what is human in this world going gaudy & insane. In exploring small truths, something larger might turn up, adding dimension, insight,…

— Diane Glancy

“If we go on in this way, we shall have a new art of poetry, of which one of the first rules will be:…

— Thomas Love Peacock

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

— Brooks Atkinson

To feel greatly, and understand greatly, and express greatly, the natural Beauty, is the sole business of poetry. The rest's diversion: those holy or…

— Robinson Jeffers

[To become a poet] The most important thing is to pay attention. The next would probably be to read; it's so important to pay…

— Nikki Giovanni

“I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full of stars and falseness.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of light from which we predicate our…

— Audre Lorde

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

— William Hazlitt

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