Poetry Quote by Mary Caroline Richards

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

— James Wright

Poetry is a necessity of life,

— C.D. Wright

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

— Gregory Orr

Poetry creates life; Science dissects death.

— Frederick William Robertson

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

— Ruben Dario

“If poetry dies, nothing lives !”

— Vihang A. Naik

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

— Alex Lemon

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

— Archibald MacLeish

we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most…

— Erica Jong

Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.

— Charles Bukowski

Poetry holds the knowledge that we are alive and that we know we're going to die,

— Marie Howe

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

— Louise Glück