Concrete Quote by James Laughlin

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

— Richard Hell

Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual…

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave.

— Dylan Thomas

Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall…

— James Laughlin

Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.

— Dante Alighieri

Poems are never finished - just abandoned

— Paul Valery

“War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. Poetics and philosophies disintegrate…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

I think we've come to a kind of splinter period in poetry. These tiny little bright fragments of observation - and not produced under…

— Conrad Aiken

Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a past from…

— Guy Davenport

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

And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's…

— Jane Campion

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something…

— Mary Oliver