Appeals Quote by Robinson Jeffers

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

— James Branch Cabell

“Poetry is mother-tongue of the human race; as gardening is older than agriculture; painting than writing; song than declamation; parables,—than deductions; barter,—than trade.”

— Johann Georg Hamann

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

— Alice Walker

All poetry is political, to some degree.

— Mike Young

Poetry is a means of redemption.

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

— Wallace Stevens

I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poetry is priceless.... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you're quite poor.

— Marie Ponsot

What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions.

— John Ruskin

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

— Joseph Brodsky

I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished.

— Helen Vendler

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