Abandoned Quote by Wallace Stevens

Poetry is a means of redemption.

— Wallace Stevens

Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?

— William Wordsworth

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

— Gregory Orr

“Somehow something has gone wrong with poetry in our culture. We have lost touch with its purpose and value, and in doing so, we…

— Gregory Orr

Poetry is a life-cherishing force.

— Mary Oliver

Poetry can startle you, awaken you, make you fall in love, take your breath away. When those words sink in, you'll never look at…

— Maria Shriver

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

— James Wright

Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use…

— Mahmoud Darwish

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

— Archibald MacLeish

Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.

— C. S. Lewis

Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.

— Alex Lemon

The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.

— Octavio Paz