Attitude Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the…

— Lascelles Abercrombie

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

— Mark Strand

Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed…

— John Drinkwater

For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life.

— Lizette Woodworth Reese

Poetry is a life-cherishing force.

— Mary Oliver

“How, in the contemporary period, can we evoke the imagery that communicates the most profound and most richly developed sense of experiencing life? These…

— Joseph Campbell

“We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of symbols including…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and…

— Lascelles Abercrombie

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

— James Wright

Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.

— Georges Braque

I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in…

— Sylvia Plath

“Poetry is not life. Life is poetry.”

— Laurence Overmire