Easier Quote by Sarah Kay

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

— Joseph Brodsky

Humor is a universal language.

— Joel Goodman

Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.

— Natasha Trethewey

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

— Anonymous

I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not…

— Mark Strand

Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

I find it strange that - at least in my take on it - the people who are the most alarmed about the dire…

— Billy Collins

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

— Henry David Thoreau

There is a universality to comedy.

— Simon Pegg

Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry endures when it possesses passionate and primally sincere clarity in the service of articulating universal human concerns.

— Franz Wright