Five Quote by A. R. Ammons

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

— Wislawa Szymborska

Poetry can keep life itself alive. You can endure almost anything as long as you can sing about it.

— James Wright

Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.

— Louise Bogan

Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death

— Ruben Dario

I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece…

— Rita Dove

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

— John Cage

The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will…

— Matthew Arnold

“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of light from which we predicate our…

— Audre Lorde

It's not realistic to imagine that any poem will last forever. Our species won't last forever! We try to capture and preserve our impressions…

— James Arthur

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

— Georges Simenon

At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that…

— Joseph Brodsky

Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full…

— Aileen Fisher