Culture Quote by Dana Gioia

There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek…

— Octavio Paz

“Somehow something has gone wrong with poetry in our culture. We have lost touch with its purpose and value, and in doing so, we…

— Gregory Orr

“. . . poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value.”

— Major Jackson

“Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own.”

— Maya Angelou

“Poetry isn't important in today's culture, but the fact that it's useless and people still continue to write it makes it important, in that…

— Aaron Mc Collough

“Poetry has isolated me from the world more than it has connected me to it.”

— Peter Davis

“Therefore, poets do not 'fit' into society, not because a place is denied them but because they do not take their 'places' seriously. They…

— James P. Carse

“Poetry is not business as usual.”

— Judith Fitzgerald

“There are anonymous poems and poets without poems.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“I do not know how it is elsewhere, but here, in this country, poetry is a healing, life-giving thing, and people have not lost…

— Osip Mandelstam

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

“Poetry is a language adequate to one's experience.”

— Jay Parini