poetry Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about poetry.
“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.”
- Lascelles Abercrombie
“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.”
- Jean-Paul Sartre
“Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.”
- Frank Lloyd Wright
“Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.”
- Terry Eagleton
“I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.”
- Rita Dove
“For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow