Dogma Quote by Jean Cocteau

Poetry is a religion with no hope.

— Jean Cocteau

Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but…

— Jean Cocteau

Poetry is not a creed or dogma. It is a special way of speaking and listening.

— Dana Gioia

Poetry is the only hopeEven if you do not believe it, you have to do it.

— Andrei Voznesensky

“It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious... Poetry is a religion without hope.”

— Jean Cocteau

“Poetry resists academic pretension, just as the mystery of religious faith evaporates on contact with dogma.”

— Patrick White

After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.

— Octavio Paz

Poetry is a means of redemption.

— Wallace Stevens

The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.

— Wallace Stevens

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

— Ruben Dario

The poem is a confession of faith.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson