Comprehension Quote by Henry Beston

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

— Archibald MacLeish

“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of light from which we predicate our…

— Audre Lorde

Poetry cannot afford to lose its fundamentally self-delighting inventiveness, its joy in being a process of language as well as a representation of things…

— Seamus Heaney

“Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is the countenance of all science.”

— William Wordsworth

“Poetry may appear to be just words, but it is an extension of our lives. It is the music of life and for us…

— Abdul Milazi

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

— Joseph Brodsky

“Though science makes no use for poetry, poetry is enriched by science. Poetry “takes up” the scientific vision and re-expresses its truths, but always…

— L.P. Jacks

I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.

— Adrienne Rich

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

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect…

— William Hazlitt

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

— Philip Larkin

Poetry is a necessity of life,

— C.D. Wright