Indispensable Quote by Jean Cocteau

I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.

— Jean Cocteau

Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.

— Sylvia Plath

I think all poetry is accessible in a certain sense if you spend enough time with it.

— Matthea Harvey

Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it.

— William Beckett

I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

— Tom Wesselmann

Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of…

— Mike Young

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

— Charles Bukowski

All poetry is supposed to be instructive but in an unnoticeable manner; it is supposed to make us aware of what it would be…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Adrienne Rich

Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible.

— Tavares Strachan

I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.

— Jane Campion