Books Quote by Anonymous

Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die,

— Marie Howe

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

— Kellie Elmore

“Poet, teach us to love our dying.”

— Robert Kroestch

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

— Antonin Artaud

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

— Mary Stewart

“If poetry dies, nothing lives !”

— Vihang A. Naik

A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.

— Alexander Brome

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

— Maurice Maeterlinck

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

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.

— Peter Davison

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

— Rick Yancey

I do believe that a poem needs to remind the reader of his or her own humanity, of what they are, of what they're…

— Charles Simic