Against Quote by Tom Hodgkinson

Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry is a life-cherishing force.

— Mary Oliver

“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of light from which we predicate our…

— Audre Lorde

“Poetry is a principle of power invoked by all of us against our vanishing.”

— Allen Grossman

Poetry is protesting against the nature of suffering and mistreatment. Art is the expression of binding your soul and universe together in the flow…

— Jeremy Limn

I have defined poetry as a 'passionate pursuit of the Real.

— Czeslaw Milosz

Real poetry is a party, a wild party, a party where anything might happen. A party from which you may never return home.

— Dorothea Lasky

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

... 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

The fact that poetry is not of the slightest economic or political importance, that is has no attachment to any of the powers that…

— Graham Hough

A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is…

— Mark Strand