Greed Quote by Edith Sitwell

“I have a book of poetry I believe many should read but in each verse you'll discover it wasn't written for greed.”

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative - that we're just in the…

— Adrienne Rich

The fact that poetry is not of the slightest economic or political importance, that is has no attachment to any of the powers that…

— Graham Hough

For thousands of years, poetry has been picturing love as a mysterious and tragic power. But when anyone says the same thing in plain…

— Ellen Key

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

— James Joyce

I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.

— Jean Cocteau

No one ever expects poetry to sell...

— Alan Lightman

Poetry cannot afford to lose its fundamentally self-delighting inventiveness, its joy in being a process of language as well as a representation of things…

— Seamus Heaney

Poetry is the enemy of the poem.

— Stanley Kunitz

It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great poet.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Poetry is not a luxury.

— Audre Lorde

I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.

— Hortense Calisher