Digestion Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

— Matthew Arnold

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

— William Wordsworth

Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

— Henry David Thoreau

Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe.

— Camille Paglia

“Poetry is the insistent roaring of the human soul.”

— Pietros Maneos

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

— Carolyn Forche

Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves

— Lorna Goodison

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all…

— James Russell Lowell

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

“This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace,…

— Octavio Paz

Poetry is a form of necessary speech... I have sought to restore the aura of sacred practice that accompanies true poetic creation, to honor…

— Edward Hirsch

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