Alive Quote by James Wright

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

— Ruben Dario

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

— Archibald MacLeish

Poetry is a life-cherishing force.

— Mary Oliver

I just think that limits the kinds of experiences that people can have with poetry. But, poetry will survive; I don't worry about that.…

— Edward Hirsch

To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.

— Gregory Orr

I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions, and traumatic events that come with being alive.

— Gregory Orr

Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.

— Alex Lemon

I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger…

— C. K. Williams

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

— Wislawa Szymborska

The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

— Louise Glück

Maybe poetry's not so important, but ... it makes life worth living.

— Arda Collins

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

— Natalie Merchant