Poetry Quote by Terry Eagleton

The cliche is dead poetry.

— Gerald Brenan

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

— Marianne Moore

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

— Antonin Artaud

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

— Dylan Thomas

“A poet could kill the dead.”

— Cameron Conaway

“what is poetry, how can I even think of meter, metaphor, as you lie dying, swollen & agonized in your pretty gown”

— Sandra M. Gilbert

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

“Poetry will die when love and pain cease to exist.”

— Kellie Elmore

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something…

— Mary Oliver

“War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. Poetics and philosophies disintegrate…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something…

— Mary Oliver

“I believe that poems die the moment they are outwardly expressed.”

— Maurice Maeterlinck