Alive Quote by Derek Walcott

Poetry is meant to be heard.

— Mary Oliver

... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?

— Erica Jong

Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

— William Shenstone

Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.

— Alex Lemon

“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

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

— Natalie Merchant

“Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own.”

— Maya Angelou

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

— Charles Simic

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the…

— Wislawa Szymborska

There is a kind of poetry in simple fact.

— Edward Abbey

Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death

— Ruben Dario