Important Quote by Rosamond Lehmann

Maybe poetry's not so important, but ... it makes life worth living.

— Arda Collins

Poetry can keep life itself alive. You can endure almost anything as long as you can sing about it.

— James Wright

To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.

— Gregory Orr

I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger…

— C. K. Williams

Poetry is a necessity of life,

— C.D. Wright

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.

— Peter Davison

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

— Leonard Cohen

Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.

— Natasha Trethewey

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

— Antonin Artaud

Whoever doesn't live in poetry cannot survive here on earth.

— Halldór Laxness

Poetry is a life-cherishing force.

— Mary Oliver

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

— Adrienne Rich