Attention Quote by Edward Hirsch

I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language. It does demand a…

— Edward Hirsch

I think poetry will survive and I don't think it will be the end of poetry. Our tremendous onslaught of mass media all the…

— Edward Hirsch

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

— Lucille Clifton

I just think that limits the kinds of experiences that people can have with poetry. But, poetry will survive; I don't worry about that.…

— Edward Hirsch

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

— Ruben Dario

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

— Gaston Bachelard

The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power, or those…

— Adrienne Rich

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

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come…

— Antonin Artaud

poetry is where the language is renewed.

— Margaret Atwood

The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will…

— Matthew Arnold

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

— John Denham