Another time Quote by Matthew Zapruder

The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will…

— Matthew Arnold

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

By making us stop for a moment, poetry gives us an opportunity to think about ourselves as human beings on this planet and what…

— Rita Dove

I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece…

— Rita Dove

For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are…

— Adrienne Rich

The question does arise if how and why to write poetry in this time. It feels both completely essential and also quite difficult. But…

— Matthew Zapruder

“Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity for our existence. It forms the quality of light from which we predicate our…

— Audre Lorde

Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is…

— Edward Hirsch

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come…

— Antonin Artaud

I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.

— Michael Longley

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

— Ruben Dario