Done Quote by Conrad Aiken

As poetry is the highest speech of man, it can not only accept and contain, but in the end express best everything in the…

— Conrad Aiken

It is poetry that changes everything.

— Bell Hooks

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

— Charles Bukowski

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

— Anonymous

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

— John Denham

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

For me poems are acts re-done, and that can vibrate well into the future.

— Anne Waldman

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being,…

— T. S. Eliot

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

— Jacques Maritain

The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same.

— Lana Del Rey