Quotes About Culture

Perhaps the Gaelic people shall by his like bring back again the ancient simplicity and amplitude of imagination.

and that he delighted in Flaubert and Pater, read Homer in the original and not as a schoolmaster reads him for the grammar.

Seanchan (pronounced Shanahan), Chief Poet of Ireland.

The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

a culture is no better than its woods

When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.

And had everything necessary to the Modern Man, A phonograph, a radio, a car and a frigidaire. Our researchers into Public Opinion are content That he held the proper opinions for the time of year; When there was peace, he was for peace: when there was war, he went

Any society is in danger of dismissing the virtue of another society because of its vices, and a democracy is always in danger of not paying enough attention to manners and forms.

Whatever else it may or may not be, I want every poem I write to be a hymn in praise of the English language.

Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

Civilisation and top hats bore me.

Baseball is a ceremony, a ritual, as surely as sacrificing a goat beneath a full moon is a ritual.

In these days when anything goes in literature, movies, and even TV, to think there are some places so isolated, so backward, so ill-informed as to what's going on in the world

Testimone Voglio raccontare di com'erano le foreste Dovrò parlare in una lingua dimenticata p#109

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.

It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of adding to culture. The other way you are in danger of merely imitating it.

Just give the Italians a chance for drama and they take it with both hands.

Sometimes I have no choice but to wear my hair and I try to make it look as normal as possible, but no, there's no chance.

If I hadn't been living here [in America], do you think we would have gotten a Grammy? No chance.

I had a chance to go to Italy when I was younger and that would have been tough because of the language. America is easier but I really loved it.

I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too.

When you compare Christmas to Hanukkah, there's no comparison. Christmas is great. Hanukkah sucks! First night you get socks. Second night, an eraser, a notebook. It's a Back-to-School holiday!

Roses are reddish Violets are bluish If it weren't for Christmas We'd all be Jewish.