Book Quote by Ezra Pound

Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

— Richard Hell

I would say there are different kinds of poems. There are things that poets in the history of poetry hit upon when they're very…

— Edward Hirsch

But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.

— Philip Levine

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life.

— T. S. Eliot

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

— Raymond Chandler

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

When poems are no good they don't make any sense.

— Derek Walcott

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

— Ruben Dario

It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of…

— Philip Larkin

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

“(W)hy is poetry wholly an elderly taste? When I was twenty I could not for the life of me read Shakespeare for pleasure; now…

— Virginia Woolf

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

— Clive James