I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry…

I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language. It does demand a…

— Edward Hirsch

And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's…

— Jane Campion

I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but…

— Diane Wakoski

I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language…

— Rita Mae Brown

I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.

— Hilary Mantel

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.

— Robert Morgan

“Poetry will die when love and pain cease to exist.”

— Kellie Elmore

This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the…

— Eugenio Montale

“As long as music survives, poetry will never die.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Ah, Sofia, darlin'! On my best days, I believe in Him with all my heart." "And on your worst days?" she had asked that…

— Mary Doria Russell

First of all I think that poetry is very noble and I always have with me the sense of the nobility of poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

I'd say people do need some help with poetry because I think poetry just helps takes us to places that Americans aren't always accustomed…

— Edward Hirsch

I think it's true that that's something that poetry can go to school on fiction. I think poetry can go to fiction to learn.

— Edward Hirsch

I think poetry will survive and I don't think it will be the end of poetry. Our tremendous onslaught of mass media all the…

— Edward Hirsch

“In love it does not matter what you say, but what you feel. In poetry it does not matter what you feel, but what…

— Luis de Góngora