Poetry Quote by Erica Jong

“A poet could kill the dead.”

— Cameron Conaway

“Emphatically, no killers are we. Poets never kill.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“You want to be a poet and not die.”

— Erica Jong

“ASK NOT IF POETRY IS DEAD, ASK HOW YOU CAN LIVE FOR POETRY.”

— Amy King

“Poets find their voices when they articulate the wishes of the dead, especially those slain as sacrificial talismans to a larger frame of existence.”

— Michael S. Harper

“Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.”

— Mary Stewart

“...poets generally write as if they were dead.”

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

“Poet, teach us to love our dying.”

— Robert Kroestch

Academia is a graveyard of poets.

— Kathleen Raine

“Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many…

— Oscar Wilde

“Poetry is again hip in America as people are beginning to refuse to die of boredom and to choke in the fog of their…

— Andrei Codrescu

“If poetry dies, nothing lives !”

— Vihang A. Naik