Despite Quote by Paul Muldoon

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

— C.D. Wright

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

— Czeslaw Milosz

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

— Wallace Stevens

For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life.

— Lizette Woodworth Reese

Poetry is really a way of sharing feelings and ideas.

— Caroline Kennedy

...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths...

— Anonymous

I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger…

— C. K. Williams

I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece…

— Rita Dove

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

Maybe poetry's not so important, but ... it makes life worth living.

— Arda Collins

I love that people want to know about poetry. It's one of the ways of keeping alive.

— Joan Larkin

Poems are other people's snapshots in which we see our own lives.

— Charles Simic