Books Quote by Sylvia Plath

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

— Mark Strand

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

— Louise Glück

Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.

— C.D. Wright

Poetry is a necessity of life,

— C.D. Wright

Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life.

— Josephine Hart

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

— James Wright

Maybe poetry's not so important, but ... it makes life worth living.

— Arda Collins

Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.

— Philip Larkin

Poetry is a life-cherishing force.

— Mary Oliver

For some odd reason, the expression 'death of a poet' always sounds somewhat more concrete than 'life of a poet.'

— Joseph Brodsky

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

— Paul Muldoon

“Poetry is not life. Life is poetry.”

— Laurence Overmire