“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”—from the movie “Dead Poets Society”
“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is a painting that speaks.”—Simonides
“Poetry creates the myth, the prose writer draws its portrait.”—Jean-Paul Sartre
“Poetry is subconscious conversation; it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.”—Sonia Sanchez
“The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.”—Allen Ginsberg
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.”—Paul Dirac
“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.”—Plato
“Poetry is not sought but received. The puritan habits of hard work are not much help. Oh, they may help you get in the chair, keep you at the task, but the real lure is the gift of the word, the line that surprises.”—Donald M. Murray
“The poet knows that he speaks adequately then only when he speaks somewhat wildly, or ‘with the flower of the mind’... not with the intellect alone but with the intellect inebriated with nectar.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Poetry is being, not doing.”—E.E. Cummings
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