Art Quote by Kenneth Rexroth

“Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own.”

— Maya Angelou

“Somehow something has gone wrong with poetry in our culture. We have lost touch with its purpose and value, and in doing so, we…

— Gregory Orr

I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out…

— Lucy Larcom

Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.

— C. S. Lewis

So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality.

— e. e. cummings

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

— Don Marquis

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

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

— James Branch Cabell

Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect…

— William Hazlitt

As poetry is the highest speech of man, it can not only accept and contain, but in the end express best everything in the…

— Conrad Aiken

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

— Wallace Stevens

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