Dying Quote by Elliott Colla

Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight...every word is war.

— Rolf Dieter Brinkmann

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

— Seamus Heaney

“I do not know how it is elsewhere, but here, in this country, poetry is a healing, life-giving thing, and people have not lost…

— Osip Mandelstam

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

— Alice Walker

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn…

— Sylvia Plath

Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the exile of…

— Octavio Paz

Poetry is a means of redemption.

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.

— Wallace Stevens

Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal…

— Christopher Morley

Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.

— James Dickey

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline, you've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space that you've just got…

— Sylvia Plath