Alive Quote by Gregory Orr

I said, the poets are there I hear them singing and lying around their round table and around me still.

— Anne Sexton

Whether the poet is living or dead, they're part of our imaginative community.

— Joan Larkin

Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.

— Rick Yancey

And mighty poets in their misery dead.

— William Wordsworth

“Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled…

— John Keats

Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?

— William Wordsworth

“Who will read these poems when the people are gone?”

— Dominic Owen Mallary

“Be still for you may hear the hauntingly familiar song of a mermaid.”

— Heather McLaren

Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.

— Dante Alighieri

“Teach me to hear mermaids singing,”

— John Donne

“i love mermaids i cant live without books about them.”

— Tera Lynn Childs

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

— Ivy Compton-Burnett