Business Quote by John Dewey

I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials.

— May Sarton

Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.

— Kathleen Raine

Poetry is a necessity of life,

— C.D. Wright

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

The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn,…

— Keith Miller

Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.

— Edward Hirsch

It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit but knowledge,…

— Guy Davenport

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of…

— Mary Oliver

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

— Mary Karr

Anybody serious about poetry knows how hard it is to achieve anything worthwhile in it.

— Seamus Heaney

“Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death. The gift of art is a superior gift that allows…

— Ruben

Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.

— Mary Oliver