Agree Quote by Maya Angelou

You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world.

— Jackie Kennedy

I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world.

— Mary Karr

I try not to think in terms of what poems or poets should do. Most of us appreciate a wide diversity in music, in…

— James Arthur

After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I think people should just make art and let the art speak for itself.

— Poppy

An artist must create. If she doesn't, she will become a menace to society.

— Maria Semple

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

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.

— Nikki Giovanni

We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Art cannot change the world, but it can contribute to changing the consciousness and drives of the men and women who could change the…

— Herbert Marcuse

I kind of think that artists throughout history, poets throughout history have been criticized for sharing what's on people's minds and I don't think…

— Russell Simmons

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