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Poetry is the imitation of the most important aspect of human existence life and that's what make's it so beautiful and necessary. — Nicolas Saperstein

The counsellor who never reads a novel or never opens a book of poetry is neglecting an important resource for empathic development. — Dave Mearns

It was as important to live poetically as to write poems. — James Broughton

Poetry is not the most important thing in life ... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets. — Dylan Thomas

If we are moved by a poem, it has meant something, perhaps something important, to us; if we are not moved, then it is, as poetry, meaningless. — T. S. Eliot

His first word, his first day at junior high. Nonsense things, the deepest, most important poetry of my life. — Sebastian Barry

I do think that poetry is important though, if you don't strive at it, if you don't fill it full of stars and falseness. — Charles Bukowski

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

The important thing in life is to be. — Doutor Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

But poetry is not to be lived, except for the few to whom it is more important than self-preservation. — Rosamond Lehmann

I find that the thoughts spoken between the lines are the most important parts of a poem or story. — Lynn Cullen

Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond. — Natalie Goldberg

keep following your heart.
it won't always be easy, but it'll be the most important thing you'll do. — AVA.

Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings. — Mary Oliver

It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have. — Kay Ryan

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry. — George Bernard Shaw

Maybe poetry's not so important, but ... it makes life worth living. — Arda Collins

Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its success. — Babette Deutsch

Poetry is important to people in a crisis, as love and intelligence are important. These are survival tools. — Dennis Loy Johnson

You say love's so important, but how can you prove it?
Love is like soap, it works if you use it. — Dominic Smith

One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language. — Pattiann Rogers

Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later. — Robert Morgan

As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics. — Kathleen Rooney

If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn't write a single word, but that would be tragic. — Dejan Stojanovic

Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won't. — Dorianne Laux

Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat. — Dejan Stojanovic

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first. — Denis Johnson

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry. — Robert Morgan

Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don't believe that, try using the two methods to get laid. — Mark Forsyth

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. — Wislawa Szymborska