Dazzle Quote by Milan Kundera

Poetry keeps longing alive.

— Robert Bly

The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person...

— Czeslaw Milosz

“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

Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use…

— Mahmoud Darwish

The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.

— Octavio Paz

“Poetry is the perpetual endeavor to express the spirit of the thing, to pass the brute body and search the life and reason which…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and longing.

— Eliza Griswold

“Poetry may appear to be just words, but it is an extension of our lives. It is the music of life and for us…

— Abdul Milazi

In today's world it is deceptively easy to lose sight of our direction and the things that matter and give us joy. How quickly…

— Roger Housden

... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we…

— Audre Lorde

“Poetry...is full of visions pulled more from our hearts than from our minds. Our greatest poems are written in the dust of our deepest…

— John H Ritter

Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.

— Alex Lemon