Commitment Quote by Edward Hirsch

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an…

— Stevie Smith

Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.

— Toi Derricotte

Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its…

— Babette Deutsch

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

— Donald Hall

I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it,…

— Stella Benson

For poetry is, I believe, always an act of the spirit. The poem teaches us something while we make it. The poem makes you…

— May Sarton

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

That's one of those questions that would just love to have a pat answer. You know, poetry's job is to make us feel good.…

— Sam Hamill

“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of light from which we predicate our…

— Audre Lorde

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

— Arda Collins

If you know much about your work - why you work, how you work, your aims - you are probably not a poet.

— Mary Webb

With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not they cannot…

— Edgar Allan Poe