American poetry Quote by Amy King

“If poetry dies, nothing lives !”

— Vihang A. Naik

“If poetry is what you live for then do it write.”

— R.M. Engelhardt

“Poetry is not life. Life is poetry.”

— Laurence Overmire

“You want to be a poet and not die.”

— Erica Jong

“A dead poet is better than one that's alive”

— Aaron Ozee

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

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.

— Dante Alighieri

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“...poets generally write as if they were dead.”

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

“Poetry is not something you have to retire from”

— John Cooper Clarke

“I believe that poems die the moment they are outwardly expressed.”

— Maurice Maeterlinck