“Poetry can’t cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.”– Maurice Saatchi Related Quotes “I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to its poetry. I see polarization, reductionism and superficiality.”– Azar Nafisi “I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.”– J. Courtney Sullivan “If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.”– A. E. Housman