Discovery Quote by Gertrude Stein

Poetry is one of the most full ways of discovering what it feels like to be a human being in this particular moment, in…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we…

— Audre Lorde

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

— Jacques Maritain

Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

— Voltaire

If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language…

— Rita Dove

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

— Archibald MacLeish

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.

— Gregory Orr

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

— Caroline Kennedy

Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.

— Carolyn Forche