Life Quote by Ariel Gore

“What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”

— Virginia Woolf

“Writing poetry is supernatural. Or, it should be.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

“It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious... Poetry is a religion without hope.”

— Jean Cocteau

“Poetry, to me, is a type of shamanistic chant capable of chasing away the darkness within us.”

— Leila Samarrai

I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

— Natasha Trethewey

“Real poetry is art at its purest sense. It is never a commodity, but a breath of eternity.”

— Subhan Zein

“I am poetry, surrounding the dreamer, Ever present, I capture the spirit, enslave the reluctant pen, and become the breath on the writer's only…

— Pam Muñoz Ryan

“This is the difficult miracle of Black poetry in America: that we persist, published or not, and loved or unloved: we persist.”

— June Jordan

“It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life of Poetry.…

— Adrienne Rich

“A true poet writes from the language and experiences of their own heart, not those of others.”

— Suzy Kassem

“Somehow something has gone wrong with poetry in our culture. We have lost touch with its purpose and value, and in doing so, we…

— Gregory Orr