Poetic Necessity Quotes

I always feel that whatever isn't necessary shouldn't be in a poem.

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.

Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.

I've reached a point in life where it would be easy to let down my guard and write simple imagistic poems. But I don't want to write poems that aren't necessary. I want to write poems that matter, that have an interesting point of view.

The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power, or those who still believe that language is 'only words' and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.

Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?

Without poetry the soul and heart of man starves and dies.

I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader may then find the poem difficult.