Cold Quote by Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Still must the poet as of old, In barren attic bleak and cold, Starve, freeze, and fashion verses to Such things as flowers and…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something…

— Mary Oliver

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something…

— Mary Oliver

“Where have all the poets gone? Rhyme with passion left unsung, Even now my heart it yearns, Until my poet prince returns.’ ”

— Heather Burch

It seems to me a purely lyric poet gives himself, right down to his sex, to his mood, utterly and abandonedly, whirls himself roundtill…

— D. H. Lawrence

“Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret suffrings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs…

— Anonymous

Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.

— Rick Yancey

“Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.”

— Mary Stewart

O ye dead Poets, who are living still Immortal in your verse, though life be fled, And ye, O living Poets, who are dead…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“The words of the letter had long since been whisked away by time, but the poems he kept prisoner in his heart.”

— Felix Alexander