Destroyed Quote by William Blake

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

— William Blake

“Poetry is the insistent roaring of the human soul.”

— Pietros Maneos

The poetry of speech.

— Lord Byron

Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.

— Anonymous

“Poetry is the sound of the human animal.”

— Suniti Namjoshi

“Poetry is cathartic only for the unserious, for in front of the rush of expressive need stands the barrier of form, and when the…

— William H. Gass

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

— William Shenstone

“The Throes of Poetry - Hymns formed from groans of acquaintance, its rhythm weaving between tranquility, compassions, and peril - like bare feet stomping…

— Traci Lea LaRussa

“Lurking behind this connecting silence is a brooding suspicion over the extent to which the perceptual user-preferences of the human animal limit and distort…

— Don Paterson

The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate.

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

— Wallace Stevens

“Poetry, in its own way, is a carrier of the sparks, because it too comes out of silence, seeking connection with unseen others.”

— Adrienne Rich