Poetry Makes Quotes
- Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen. — Carol Ann Duffy
- Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words… — Helen Dunmore
- I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants. — Howard Nemerov
- Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet,… — Vikram Seth
- Sometimes he would advise me to read poetry, and would send me in his letters quantities of verses and whole poems, which he wrote from… — Peter Kropotkin
- Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage. — Charles Dickens
- Poetry makes nothing happen. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Good poetry .. makes the universe .. reveal its .. 'secret' — Hafiz Of Persia