Changes Quote by Bell Hooks

Poetry is language surprised in the act of changing into meaning.

— Stanley Kunitz

“Poetry is a connection to a change within you.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.

— Amanda Gorman

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on…

— Seamus Heaney

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new

— Rory Sutherland

I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very necessary to push poets…

— Mahmoud Darwish

Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

— Gertrude Stein

Poetry is a world seen through the eyes of the soul, writing in its being...

— Mariana Fulger

If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.

— Anonymous

Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of…

— Mike Young

In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.

— Anonymous