Art Quote by Jane Cooper

“I believe that poems die the moment they are outwardly expressed.”

— Maurice Maeterlinck

“Poetry had always seemed something I could turn to in need - an emergency exit, a lifebuoy, as well as a justification.”

— John Fowles

“I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying…

— Anonymous

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

— Gregory Orr

... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.

— Adrienne Rich

“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

“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

“Poetry can be a form of restriction. Lock away tragedy inside pretty words. Quantify pieces of infinite love.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

“Poetry is a never ending journey.”

— Subrat Saurabh

“There are a handful of poems, which perhaps might need their own warning for the people who are frightened, disturbed, or terminally puzzled by…

— Neil Gaiman

“Poetry survives because it haunts and it haunts because it is simultaneously utterly clear and deeply mysterious; because it cannot be entirely accounted for,…

— Louise Glück

“Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.”

— Anonymous