Games Quote by Roberto Bolaño

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

— Charles Bukowski

Poetry can cause irreparable harm when misapplied

— Gail Carriger

Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.

— James Dickey

Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.

— Jean Cocteau

Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.

— A. E. Housman

Poetry is not a way of saying things; it's a way of seeing things.

— Karl Shapiro

Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in…

— Diane Ackerman

Poetry is something that disturbs the mainstream with minor things and it is something that breaks down active discrimination with passive things, and it…

— Kim Hyesoon

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Poetry is life distilled.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation.

— Rosamond Lehmann