Gone Quote by Robert Bly

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

— Arda Collins

Poetry can startle you, awaken you, make you fall in love, take your breath away. When those words sink in, you'll never look at…

— Maria Shriver

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

— Donald Hall

I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave.

— Dylan Thomas

“I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full of stars and falseness.”

— Charles Bukowski

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

— Henrik Ibsen

I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions, and traumatic events that come with being alive.

— Gregory Orr

It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth the intangible…

— Frank O'Hara

I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have.

— Alex Lemon

Never forget that the subject is as important as your feeling; the mud puddle itself is as important as your pleasure in looking at…

— Valerie Worth

Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of…

— Mike Young

Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its…

— Babette Deutsch