Common Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

This, in the end, might be the greatest social good of poetry: to get us to live differently, with a different sort of thinking…

— Matthew Zapruder

“As with life’s finer things, Poetry is created to be savored, not consumed.”

— Branch Isole

Poetry is a necessity of life,

— C.D. Wright

It was as important to live poetically as to write poems.

— James Broughton

“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

It's absolutely crucial to maintain my life as a poet.

— Edward Hirsch

“By becoming poets of physical and mental height, we can create new values and build new forms of life, defying the tyranny of habit,…

— Erik Pevernagie

The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.

— Horace

“We first make our habits, then our habits make us. ENGLISH POET.”

— Sean Covey

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

“i am simply the poet. the poem is the one that can change your life. – medium”

— Nayyirah Waheed

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

— Arda Collins