Bible Quote by Wallace Stevens

Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative - that we're just in the…

— Adrienne Rich

If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.

— Anonymous

For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are…

— Adrienne Rich

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

— John Drinkwater

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

— Jim Morrison

“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

I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it,…

— Stella Benson

The act of making poetry is an act of hope.

— Natasha Trethewey

Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death

— Ruben Dario

Poetry is God's work.

— Katy Lederer