Baths Quote by Dylan Thomas

I would rather read poetry than eat my dinner any day. It has been so all my life.

— Laura E. Richards

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

— Donald Hall

Maybe poetry's not so important, but ... it makes life worth living.

— Arda Collins

...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths...

— Anonymous

Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don't believe that, try using the two methods to get laid.

— Mark Forsyth

Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters.

— e. e. cummings

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.

— Peter Davison

Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.

— Alice Notley

Poetry is at the centre of my life, too, emotionally speaking, and intellectually speaking - it's just that I'm one of those people who…

— Andrew Motion

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in…

— Carol Ann Duffy

I don't want to bury anything in poetry.

— Sharon Van Etten

About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives.

— Margaret Atwood