Function Quote by C.D. Wright

The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.

— Joseph Joubert

Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is…

— Adrienne Rich

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

— Giorgos Seferis

Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

POETRY, n. A form of expression peculiar to the Land beyond the Magazines.

— Ambrose Bierce

Local images have one kind of reality. 'U.S. 1' will, I hope, have that kind and another, too. Poetry can extend the document.

— Muriel Rukeyser

Writing poetry is a state of free float.

— Margaret Atwood

How fortunate we are to exist in the moneyless economy of poetry! When you take money out of the equation, anything goes and nobody…

— Kenneth Goldsmith

Poetry feels like a country I visit without a passport, where I look around furtively, grab hold of something precious, and try to smuggle…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out of control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate…

— Adrienne Rich

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

— Vincent Van Gogh