Carpe Quote by Robin Williams

We don't read and write poetry because its cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the…

— Anonymous

“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the…

— Walt Whitman

Poetry isn't just different from prose, it's more important for the human species.

— Joseph Brodsky

I write, but I don't write poetry. I don't rhyme or anything like that.

— Channing Tatum

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry

— Paul Muldoon

We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.

— Henry David Thoreau

More people write poetry than read it.

— George Carlin

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

— Vicente Aleixandre

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

— Anonymous

I enjoy writing poetry more than seeing people in real life. To me most people are the same.

— Jeremy Limn

Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love.

— Gao Xingjian

I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it.

— Michael Helm