Communication Quote by Jonathan W. Galassi

The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will…

— Matthew Arnold

Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe.

— Camille Paglia

Poetry is the lens we use to interrogate the history we stand on and the future we stand for.

— Amanda Gorman

Modern" poetry is, essentially, an extension of romanticism; it is what romantic poetry wishes or finds it necessary to become. It is the end…

— Randall Jarrell

Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.

— Diane Glancy

poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of…

— Annie Dillard

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that…

— Joseph Brodsky

By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry…

— David Whyte

It may very well be that we have entered another time when most poets will feel compelled to use poetry to stop things from…

— Matthew Zapruder

The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and every science…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

— Horace