Annoyed Quote by Thomas Lux

I am intrigued and even moved by the idea of being right with the reader in the actuality that she or he is reading…

— Matthew Zapruder

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

— Antonin Artaud

This poem is one of a series, all of them elegiac in intention, and subject to the strange forces of mourning that let loose…

— Lyn Hejinian

The cliche is dead poetry.

— Gerald Brenan

I myself always want to talk about "poetry," not "the poem."

— Paul Fry

“The idea that literary theorists killed poetry dead because with their shrivelled hearts and swollen brains they are incapable of spotting a metaphor, let…

— Terry Eagleton

The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama.

— Dannie Abse

Maybe lurking in my unconscious was the idea that when someone's collected poems are published it means that the poet is dead. I found…

— Ron Padgett

I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.

— Yusef Komunyakaa

“No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the…

— T.S. Eliot

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

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

— Joseph Brodsky