Concern Quote by Michael Longley

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

Poetry is something that disturbs the mainstream with minor things and it is something that breaks down active discrimination with passive things, and it…

— Kim Hyesoon

Poetry isn't just different from prose, it's more important for the human species.

— Joseph Brodsky

As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.

— N. Scott Momaday

As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

On the one hand poetry is useless. It can't change the world materially. On the other hand it is a basic part of human…

— Bei Dao

It may very well be that we have entered another time when most poets will feel compelled to use poetry to stop things from…

— Matthew Zapruder

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

— Wallace Stevens

I just think that limits the kinds of experiences that people can have with poetry. But, poetry will survive; I don't worry about that.…

— Edward Hirsch

To me, poetry is a rational act. I never write a poem if I'm not sure what I am going to say or what…

— Luljeta Lleshanaku

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what…

— Allen Ginsberg

Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

— Sonia Sanchez