Break Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke

I think great poetry is enormously powerful.

— Michael Cunningham

The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.

— K'naan

Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we're always lacking something.

— Junot Diaz

When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of…

— John F. Kennedy

Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.

— John Sterling

One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.

— William Blake

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

— William Wordsworth

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

— Robert Fitzgerald

Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves

— Lorna Goodison

People in power tend to find poetry dangerous to them because it is dislocating, they can't catch it, can't control it. They prefer coherence,…

— Elia Suleiman

Poetry, I'm returning to it, never leaves me. It's my genre completely. In poetry I contemplate myself exuberantly. It's my unique strength. Force of…

— Nicole Brossard

The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

— Matthew Arnold