Animal Quote by Randall Jarrell

Poetry must be human. If it is not human, it is not poetry.

— Vicente Aleixandre

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

— Gustave Flaubert

Poetry is a necessity of life,

— C.D. Wright

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

— Mark Strand

“Poetry is not life. Life is poetry.”

— Laurence Overmire

Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death

— Ruben Dario

All lives are composed of two basic elements," the squirrel said, "purpose and poetry. By being ourselves, squirrel and raven, we fulfill the first…

— Peter S. Beagle

“What would the human soul be without poetry?”

— Parker Bilal

Poetry calls into question what it means to be human

— Sandra Alcosser

“A life without poetry is a life without heart, without laughter, without crying - it's a life without feelings.”

— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

I find I cannot exist without Poetry

— John Keats

The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.

— Henry David Thoreau