Achieve Quote by Jean Cocteau

“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 at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

— Robert Fitzgerald

We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet…

— Adrienne Rich

Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.

— Alex Lemon

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.

— Robert Gilfillan

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

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

— Mark Strand

Poetry cannot be explained, it must be lived.

— Anne Hebert

“The essential advantage for a poet is not to have a beautiful world with which to deal; it is to be able to see…

— T.S. Eliot

“Poetry is the icon-stasis on which a desire for aesthetic ecstasy illustrates itself endlessly.”

— the mag man

“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

For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are…

— Adrienne Rich