Delight Quote by John Cage

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

— John Cage

The things we fear about poetry are the things that are good about poetry.

— Jake Adam York

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.

— Muriel Rukeyser

The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

— Matthew Arnold

“Since poetry deals with the singular, not the general, it cannot - if it is good poetry - look at things of this earth…

— Czesław Miłosz

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

— Wallace Stevens

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 not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we…

— Audre Lorde

Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.

— Gwen Harwood

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being,…

— T. S. Eliot

“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

“All things exist as they are perceived: at least in relation to the percipient. 'The mind is its own place, and of itself can…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley