Memory Quote by Louisa May Alcott

“Poetry is again hip in America as people are beginning to refuse to die of boredom and to choke in the fog of their…

— Andrei Codrescu

“What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”

— Virginia Woolf

“As long as music survives, poetry will never die.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Ah! poetry makes life what light and music do the stage—strip the one of the false embellishments, and the other of its illusions, and…

— Charles Dickens

“Or reading poetry. Now there was a job that should exist. To spend one’s days in the company of Blake and Dickinson, Yeats and…

— Anne D. LeClaire

“Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Fame. Everyone dreams of fame. You long to live forever, to gain the power of light. But fame is fickle.”

— Matt Suddain

“Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.”

— Mary Stewart

“All that is worth remembering in life, is the poetry of it”

— William Hazlitt

Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame.

— James Russell Lowell

“Poetry is not something you have to retire from”

— John Cooper Clarke

“Poetry helps heal wounds. Makes them tangible.”

— Isabel Quintero