Capture Quote by James Arthur

It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts.…

— Robert Frost

Writing is performative - and while, yes, the words in essence will be there "forever," poems are often about ecstatic moments rather than trying…

— Denise Duhamel

Poetry can keep life itself alive. You can endure almost anything as long as you can sing about it.

— James Wright

A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end.

— Robert Graves

A poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will make its own way…

— Dorianne Laux

The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will…

— Matthew Arnold

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without

— A. R. Ammons

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

— Ruben Dario

“It is, of course, we who house poems as much as their words, and we ourselves must be the locus of poetry's depth of…

— Jane Hirshfield

I think poetry will survive and I don't think it will be the end of poetry. Our tremendous onslaught of mass media all the…

— Edward Hirsch

The world does not know it needs poems any longer, but we believe it does.

— Bin Ramke

In today's world it is deceptively easy to lose sight of our direction and the things that matter and give us joy. How quickly…

— Roger Housden