Concerned Quote by Wilfred Owen

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

— Wilfred Owen

I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Yet these elegies…

— Wilfred Owen

This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor…

— Wilfred Owen

I am not interested in poetry for poetry's sake.

— Ernesto Cardenal

Poetry is the enemy of the poem.

— Stanley Kunitz

Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal -…

— May Sarton

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

— Robert Frost

Sometimes my poetry is an attempt to keep off existential terror; sometimes it is a grappling with philosophical problems; sometimes just fun.

— Gwen Harwood

I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and longing.

— Eliza Griswold

Poetry is an act of peace.

— Pablo Neruda

Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.

— Sylvia Plath

The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I'm very doubtful…

— Robert Hass