Quotes About Humanity

The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.

When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.

The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.

To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to be on earth at this moment

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

My veins do not end in me but in the unanimous blood of those who struggle for life, love, things, landscape and bread, the poetry of all.

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

When we share - that is poetry in the prose of life.

Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

I feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we have to fight for it.

It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz.

Humanity and life are reflected in the stars, and the Universe itself is poetry.

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

Faith marches at the head of the army of progress. -It is found beside the most refined life, the freest government, the profoundest philosophy, the noblest poetry, the purest humanity.

We suffer each other to have each other a while.

We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.

That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what we mean to each other.