Belief Quote by Robert Hass

Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my…

— Helen Keller

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

Poetry can save the world. I'm a real believer in its power of healing and transforming. I wish more people read it ... Poetry…

— Carol Muske-Dukes

It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us.

— Robert Hass

I see poetry as spiritual medicine.

— Mahmoud Darwish

Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.

— Allen Ginsberg

I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.

— Jean Cocteau

The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. I…

— W. H. Auden

On the one hand poetry is useless. It can't change the world materially. On the other hand it is a basic part of human…

— Bei Dao

Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.

— William Wordsworth

Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things.

— John Dewey

Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.

— Henry Beston