Approach Quote by Babette Deutsch

Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don't believe that, try using the two methods to get laid.

— Mark Forsyth

Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.

— Dylan Thomas

Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.

— Anonymous

“Science seeks the truth. And it does not discriminate. For better or worse it finds things out. Science is humble. It knows what it…

— Donald R. Prothero

Science seeks the truth. And it does not discriminate. For better or worse it finds things out. Science is humble. It knows what it…

— Ricky Gervais

It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.

— Albert Einstein

I think that poetry is important when you are shipwrecked, when the ordinary structures that hold you up are gone.

— Robert Bly

My ethics, my sense of morality, my work ethic, my sense of compassion for suffering humanity, all of that comes directly out of the…

— Sam Hamill

Maybe poetry's not so important, but ... it makes life worth living.

— Arda Collins

As for the differences between audio and the printed page, the sonic aspects of poetry are important to me. I read my poems aloud…

— Rae Armantrout

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

— Denis Johnson

“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