We simply have not kept in touch with poetry....

One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.

That's one of the great things about poetry one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.

Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.