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“A poem isn't finished until it's heard.”

— Jade Foster

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Stop. Watch. Listen. There’s poetry all over. And the thing about poetry? It don’t write itself.”

— Bethany House Publishers

“A poem isn't a good poem, until you need it.”

— J. David Gray

“no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.”

— W.H. Auden

“Poetry survives because it haunts and it haunts because it is simultaneously utterly clear and deeply mysterious; because it cannot be entirely accounted for,…

— Louise Glück

“the best poems it seems to me are written out of an ultimate need. and once the poem is written, the only need after…

— Charles Bukowski

“I don’t have a lot of time. I can give a poem a couple of lines, a short story a paragraph, and a novel…

— Flannery O'Connor

“Poetry is a story that is so good, It doesn't need complete sentences.”

— John Smyth

“My Poem is life, and not finished. It shall never be finished. My Poem is life, and can grow.”

— Gwendolyn Brooks

“His work killed the poet Because he called it complete. After it nothing else could be said.”

— Marne L. Kilates

“Poetry is anything you read out loud alone.”

— David Gordon