If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness. Votes: 2
Seamus HeaneyI've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry. Votes: 2
Jeffery DeaverEverything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. Votes: 2
Wallace StevensFor me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. Votes: 2
Tahar Ben JellounHuman life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence. Votes: 0
Randall JarrellHumanity and life are reflected in the stars, and the Universe itself is poetry. Votes: 0
Phil PlaitPoetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production. Votes: 0
Joseph BrodskyLife has sadness, joy, beauty, like poetry.So be passionate and write a great story. Votes: 0
Debasish MridhaPoetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it. Votes: 0
Carl SandburgPoetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one personâs life. Votes: 0
Eavan BolandShe has something to say about what life is like-which is all we ask of poetry. Votes: 0
Louis UntermeyerIt's just me and my guitar, and the rhythm's from there, and the poetry of life. Votes: 0
Terrence HowardThe advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last. Votes: 0
Louise GluÌckPoetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life. Votes: 0
Maya AngelouI was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life. Votes: 0
Saul WilliamsPoetry gets to be the poetry of life by successfully becoming first the poetry of poetry. Votes: 0
John HollanderPoetry either pulses with real life or it's just an aborted simulacra. There's no middle ground. Votes: 0
Andre Naffis-SahelyPoetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations. Votes: 0
Carl SandburgPoetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility. It insists on living its own life. Votes: 0
Jean CocteauReal poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it. Votes: 0
Matsuo BashoPoetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire. Votes: 0
Ezra PoundMy whole life has been a struggle between Poetry and Prose, or call it Music and Law. Votes: 0
Robert SchumannI don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion. Votes: 0
Zona GalePoetry carries the imagery which is large enough for the kind of life we want for ourselves. Votes: 0
David WhyteThe flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. Votes: 0
Jean Giraudoux...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths... Votes: 0
John J. GeddesI would rather read poetry than eat my dinner any day. It has been so all my life. Votes: 0
Laura E. RichardsDreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little. Votes: 0
John GalsworthyPoetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. Votes: 0
Leonard CohenA life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures. Votes: 0
Stephen KingNothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life. Votes: 0
D.A. BottaPoetry can keep life itself alive. You can endure almost anything as long as you can sing about it. Votes: 0
James WrightI have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system. Votes: 0
Tony Harrison