Asks Quote by Edith Sitwell

Why speak of the use of poetry? Poetry is what uses us.

— Hayden Carruth

Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.

— William Wordsworth

As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.

— Edith Sitwell

Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?

— Orson F. Whitney

As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy to us.…

— Edith Sitwell

I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.

— Michael Longley

Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things.

— John Dewey

religion is poetry, - poetry is religion.

— Marie Corelli

Poetry is a language used in a different way.

— Anonymous

I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.

— Adrienne Rich

Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of…

— Adrienne Rich

The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.

— Octavio Paz