poetry Quotes

“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.”

“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.”

“Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.”

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

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

“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.”