Domain Quote by Giorgos Seferis

Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“When power narrows the areas of a man's concerns, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence”

— John F. Kennedy

There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing poets seem…

— Mary Ruefle

What is poetry which does not save nations or people?

— Czeslaw Milosz

When you write poetry you are always addressing the world somehow.

— John Cooper Clarke

Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.

— Joseph Joubert

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

— Thomas Carlyle

Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.

— James Dickey

Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world

— Wallace Stevens

I don't think poetry has a readership anywhere, really, that's that big.

— Derek Walcott