Abyss Quote by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death

— Ruben Dario

Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.

— Matthew Arnold

The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will…

— Matthew Arnold

What I see in science is a lot of imagination referring to things that are fundamental to what we are. Our cells, our history,…

— Alex Garland

poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of…

— Annie Dillard

Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.

— Henry Beston

I think poetry will survive and I don't think it will be the end of poetry. Our tremendous onslaught of mass media all the…

— Edward Hirsch

The poetry, if you will, of life is reduced to this sort of dry, scientific, you know, it's the worst sort of précis of…

— Sherman Alexie

...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths...

— Anonymous

Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human…

— Ezra Pound