Art Quote by Lord Byron

All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.

— Tom Hodgkinson

Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.

— Jean Cocteau

I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading.

— David Starkey

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

— Czesław Miłosz

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

— Clive James

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

— Jean Cocteau

Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing.

— James Tate

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

— Charles Simic

I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.

— Michael Longley

There's always a need at a critical time for poetry.

— Derek Walcott

...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths...

— Anonymous

Poetry is a necessity of life,

— C.D. Wright