Giving Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

— Guillaume Apollinaire

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.

— Nikki Giovanni

“The history of man is a must read poetry.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

We all need poetry. The moments in our lives that are characterized by language that has to do with necessity or the market, or…

— Tracy K. Smith

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

— Thomas Carlyle

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. For poetry is the blossom and the…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A great poet ought to a certain degree to rectify men's feelings... to render their feelings more sane, pure and permanent, in short, more…

— William Wordsworth

“What would the human soul be without poetry?”

— Parker Bilal

Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not…

— Seamus Heaney

As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the…

— Gary Snyder

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe