Alive Quote by Frances Mayes

This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the…

— Eugenio Montale

The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.

— Michael Helm

“The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory…

— Dan Simmons

When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

— T. S. Eliot

...the poet, while creating anew, is likely to be in a sense restoring something old.

— Owen Barfield

A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.

— John Drinkwater

And sometimes you look at the first poems by someone and you go, "They have freshness and a sense of wonder that is never…

— Edward Hirsch

Every word was once a poem.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All poetry comes from repetition.

— Kenneth Koch

Writing is a suspension of life in order to re-create life

— John McPhee

“I write you poems because God spoke the universe into existence, so don’t ever let me hear you say that words are just words.…

— Upile Chisala