Books Quote by Boris Pasternak

In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life of Poetry.…

— Adrienne Rich

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

— Abbas Kiarostami

Poems are never finished - just abandoned

— Paul Valery

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

— Rick Yancey

That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.

— Robert Creeley

Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.

— Anonymous

When ... I comprehended that poetry had no provision in it for ultimate practical attainment of the rightness of work that is truth, but…

— Laura Riding

It may very well be that we have entered another time when most poets will feel compelled to use poetry to stop things from…

— Matthew Zapruder

“When did most of us stop being poets?”

— Michael St. George

What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page.

— James Fenton

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

— Paul Valery

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

— Michael Bassey Johnson