Bears Quote by Nelson Mandela

Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies…

— Mahmoud Darwish

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

— Anne Stevenson

“Poetry is the wailing of a broken heart―the etched sorrows of despairing souls.  These artful words are an exclamation in rare colors expressed noiselessly…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Only poetry can address grief.

— Starhawk

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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 can cause irreparable harm when misapplied

— Gail Carriger

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

— Charles Bukowski

Poetry is not the opinion stated. It is a song that appears instead of a bloody wound or a smiling mouth.

— Khalil Gibran

Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.

— Carl Sandburg

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

— Seamus Heaney

For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are…

— Adrienne Rich