End of the world Quote by Robert Graves

A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

— Robert Graves

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.

— Anonymous

“Poetry should forever be becoming and never perfected.”

— Friedrich Schlegel

Maybe the world, without us, is the real poem.

— Mary Oliver

The world does not know it needs poems any longer, but we believe it does.

— Bin Ramke

It's not realistic to imagine that any poem will last forever. Our species won't last forever! We try to capture and preserve our impressions…

— James Arthur

Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.

— C. K. Williams

A poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will make its own way…

— Dorianne Laux

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.

— Nikki Giovanni

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

— Mark Strand

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All the world can be found in poetry. All you need to see and hear. All the moments, good and bad, joyous and sad.

— Patricia MacLachlan