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

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.

— Rick Yancey

Even if great poetry continues to be written, it has retreated from the center of literary life. Though supported by a loyal coterie, poetry…

— Dana Gioia

“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

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

— James Wright

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't…

— James Laughlin

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

— Natalie Merchant

“For poetry makes nothing happen: it survives In the valley of its making where executives Would never want to tamper, flows on south From…

— W.H. Auden

I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave.

— Dylan Thomas

If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.

— James Russell Lowell

“STUFF POETS STILL LIKE: POETRY”

— Amy King