History Quote by Thomas Lynch

Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.

— Omari Hardwick

People should like poetry the way a child likes snow, and they would if poets wrote it.

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

— Robert Frost

Bringing science into poetry is one way of acknowledging some of the richest stuff that is in my cultural moment.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break.

— Daniil Kharms

Poetry is a way of being alone without feeling alone. It allows you to experience another mind, I suppose. And it does that more…

— Nick Laird

I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions, and traumatic events that come with being alive.

— Gregory Orr

“Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears…

— Audre Lorde

My father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet, so I had one right inside the house. And on long trips, he'd tell me, if I…

— Natasha Trethewey

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

— Thom Gunn

I think no matter how snarky you try to be, poetry will always find a way to make a spiritual goal out of what…

— Mike Young

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

— Anonymous

For women ... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of light within which…

— Audre Lorde

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way

— Isaac Rosenberg

... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we…

— Audre Lorde