Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.
W. S. MerwinFor poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life.
Lizette Woodworth ReesePoetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
WritingEugenio MontalePoetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
Audre LordeOnly the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
Books, FoolishnessCassandra Clare in The Infernal DevicesWords - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Words, WritingNathaniel HawthorneWhen power leads men towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations.
Power, Poems, ArroganzJohn F. Kennedy