Approach Quote by Babette Deutsch

“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 essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

— Gertrude Stein

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

— Archibald MacLeish

Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe.

— Camille Paglia

As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

The commitment to working at poetry is important because a poet is a maker, and a poem is a made thing. We have to…

— Edward Hirsch

“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 one of the most full ways of discovering what it feels like to be a human being in this particular moment, in…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.

— Fleur Adcock

“Poetry isn't important in today's culture, but the fact that it's useless and people still continue to write it makes it important, in that…

— Aaron Mc Collough

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an…

— Stevie Smith