Medicine Quote by Mahmoud Darwish

Poetry to me is prayer.

— Anne Sexton

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

— Camille Paglia

Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

— Henry David Thoreau

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

— James Broughton

I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions, and traumatic events that come with being alive.

— Gregory Orr

For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life.

— Lizette Woodworth Reese

Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves

— Lorna Goodison

Poetry is God's work.

— Katy Lederer

I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave.

— Dylan Thomas

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

— Philip Larkin

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

— Archibald MacLeish

I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

— Natasha Trethewey