Better Quote by Giles Andreae

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and…

— June Jordan

Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to…

— Mattie Stepanek

Poetry is an intimate act. It's about bringing forth something that's inside you--whether it is a memory, a philosophical idea, a deep love for…

— Dorianne Laux

As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

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 a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of expression and messages. ”

— Vanessa M. Chattman

The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. I…

— W. H. Auden

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.

— Gaston Bachelard

Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion;…

— Anonymous

Poetry connects us to what is deepest in ourselves. It gives us access to our own feelings, which are often shadowy, and engages us…

— Edward Hirsch

The poet's function is to make his imagination . . . become the light in the mind of others. His role, in short, is…

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths…

— Orson F. Whitney