Adversity Quote by George Farquhar

“Better poetry than riches, Better poverty than fortunes.”

— Stephan Attia

who can Perswade more Powerfully than Poets?

— Margaret Cavendish

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

— Major Jackson

“Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour.”

— Oscar Wilde

There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out…

— Lucy Larcom

“Poetry is an art of economy.”

— Matthew Shenoda

“Poets have recently been misappropriating words in order to describe poetry as an economy that, outside the poem itself, has little to do with…

— Keneth Warren

“Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that…

— Bryant McGill

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

First of all I think that poetry is very noble and I always have with me the sense of the nobility of poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful..

— Ogden Nash