Believe Quote by Matthew Zapruder

Poetry is a break for freedom.

— David Whyte

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

— Wallace Stevens

American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.

— Diane Wakoski

But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom.…

— Peter Davison

“Poetry is the way that we transcend language through language. And thus our freedom lies in the poetry of all things”

— Ilyas Kassam

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

— Michael Longley

The freedom of poetic license.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.

— Robert Frost

“The freedom to share one's insights and judgments verbally or in writing is, just like the freedom to think, a holy and inalienabl e…

— Karl Friedrich Bahrdt

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

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

— Norman O. Brown

Not to make too much of a claim for poetry, but this is a question that goes to the moral heart of the business…

— Robert Hass