Famous Quotes About poetry

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.

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

The young people have MTV and rock and roll. Why would they go to read poetry? Poetry belongs to the Stone Age. It awakens in us perceptions that go back to those times.

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.

The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.