Gone Quote by Robert Bly

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

— Babette Deutsch

Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don't believe that, try using the two methods to get laid.

— Mark Forsyth

Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.

— Dylan Thomas

You have an utterly sincere glance when you look around after you are shipwrecked. You weep a long time on an island when you…

— Robert Bly

I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is…

— Erica Jong

I think that poetry is an act of celebration, that anytime you're writing a poem, it means that you're celebrating something, even if it's…

— Sarah Kay

I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.

— Adrienne Rich

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

— Rickie Lee Jones

I think all poetry is accessible in a certain sense if you spend enough time with it.

— Matthea Harvey

Poetry is like walking along a little, tiny, narrow ridge up on a precipice. You never know the next step, whether there's going to…

— Josephine Jacobsen

Poetry is the most direct and simple means of expressing oneself in words: the most primitive nations have poetry, but only quitewell developed civilizations…

— Northrop Frye