Attention Quote by Edward Hirsch

Poetry can save the world. I'm a real believer in its power of healing and transforming. I wish more people read it ... Poetry…

— Carol Muske-Dukes

Poetry can keep life itself alive. You can endure almost anything as long as you can sing about it.

— James Wright

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

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

— Ruben Dario

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 always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger…

— C. K. Williams

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

I think poetry can be a kind of secular way in which people can be led to approach the difficult parts of their life,…

— Kevin Hart

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

— Edward Hirsch

The primary function of poetry, as of all the arts, is to make us more aware of ourselves and the world around us. I…

— W. H. Auden

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

For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are…

— Adrienne Rich