Existence Quote by Audre Lorde

“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

For women ... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of light within which…

— Audre Lorde

If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a luxury, then…

— Audre Lorde

Poetry is not a luxury.

— Audre Lorde

... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we…

— Audre Lorde

We wont develop until we accept that reading is a vital necessity.

— Naguib Mahfouz

“I speak here of poetry as a revelatory distillation of experience, not the sterile word play that, too often, the white fathers distorted the…

— Audre Lorde

I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or…

— Jeanette Winterson

... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.

— Adrienne Rich

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Your most vital necessity in this life is that you shall love your wife completely and implicitly and in an entire nakedness of body…

— D. H. Lawrence

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of…

— John Betjeman

Poetry is a necessity of life,

— C.D. Wright

Play is the best natural resource in a creative economy. Kids need more of it. It is the work of childhood. We hope to…

— Darell Hammond

Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the least physical…

— Audre Lorde