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The purpose of poetry is to make life complete in itself. -- Wallace Stevens
The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder. -- Octavio Paz
The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person... -- Czeslaw Milosz
Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice. -- James Buchan
I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream. -- Mark Strand
Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process. -- Franz Grillparzer
When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling and with modern punctuation, and with notes. But any poetry that is performed - from song lyric to tragic speech - must make its point, as it were, without reference back. -- James Fenton
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose. -- C. S. Lewis
Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things. -- John Dewey
My life's purpose is to write poetry - but behind the poetry must be the vision of a fresh revelation for men. -- William Soutar
Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose. -- Basil Bunting
Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose for art quite explicit. -- Mark McMorris
The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia. -- Milan Kundera
I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English. -- Alfred Nobel

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