Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.
W. S. MerwinComment
For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life.
Lizette Woodworth ReeseComment
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
WritingEugenio MontaleComment
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Poetry 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 LordeComment
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
Books, FoolishnessCassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices6
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Words - 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 Hawthorne3
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