Poet Quote by Samuel Johnson

“Since poetry deals with the singular, not the general, it cannot - if it is good poetry - look at things of this earth…

— Czesław Miłosz

There is nothing useless in nature; not even uselessness itself

— Michel de Montaigne

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

— Charles Bukowski

A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.

— Wallace Stevens

There is no such thing called Useless, even the word says to Use it less…

— Rakesh

A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.

— Paul Valery

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

— Jean Cocteau

Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting. But if…

— Stephen Fry

Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their…

— George Santayana

Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful..

— Ogden Nash

“Poetry isn't important in today's culture, but the fact that it's useless and people still continue to write it makes it important, in that…

— Aaron Mc Collough

Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

— Henry David Thoreau