Behinds Quote by William Soutar

I have to interweave my poetry with purpose. For me, that purpose is to help people, and to shed a light on issues that…

— Amanda Gorman

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

— Edgar Allan Poe

The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person...

— Czeslaw Milosz

It's absolutely crucial to maintain my life as a poet.

— Edward Hirsch

The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself.

— Wallace Stevens

With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not they cannot…

— Edgar Allan Poe

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 to a painting what life is to man.

— Georges Braque

I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.

— Donald Hall

My purpose is to write, be creative; to take my God-given talent and do something positive with it.

— Jani Lane

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

— Donald Hall

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