Believe Quote by Peter Davison

Poetry is a break for freedom.

— David Whyte

But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I…

— Eugenio Montale

If freedom in the imagination is a privilege, it's one I believe everyone should have, as a basic human right. I also believe that…

— Matthew Zapruder

Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.

— Anonymous

“Poetry is the way that we transcend language through language. And thus our freedom lies in the poetry of all things”

— Ilyas Kassam

Because poets feel what we're afraid to feel, venture where we're reluctant to go, we learn from their journeys without taking the same dramatic…

— Diane Ackerman

The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his mood, to…

— Herbert Read

The poet is the voice of the people. And when the poet presents certain ideas, two phrases in one poem can alter a generation's…

— Donovan

“freedom is dangerous. If you follow it too willingly it threatens to pull you into the air; if you give it up too wholly,…

— Ernest Becker

Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.

— Robert Frost

Poets should speak out against what we see as the assault against our Constitution and the warmongering that's going on. I'm perfectly willing to…

— Sam Hamill

Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal -…

— May Sarton