Civilized Quote by Marie Ponsot

Poetry is not a luxury.

— Audre Lorde

On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a…

— Viggo Mortensen

Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.

— Toi Derricotte

A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read…

— Mark Strand

Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it.

— Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full…

— Aileen Fisher

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

— Robert Graves

“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of light from which we predicate our…

— Audre Lorde

“Poets have recently been misappropriating words in order to describe poetry as an economy that, outside the poem itself, has little to do with…

— Keneth Warren

Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of…

— Mike Young

Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.

— Wallace Stevens

I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.

— Adrienne Rich