“Poetry can’t cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.”– Maurice Saatchi Related Quotes “The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.”– Robert Penn Warren “I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.”– Howard Nemerov “I don’t think rap really fits in to ‘American Idol’ in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will.”– Nigel Lythgoe