“Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things.”– Matthew Arnold Related Quotes “I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.”– Annie Lennox “But I don’t think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.”– Diane Wakoski “Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.”– James Martineau