Quotes About Culture

To speak only one language is to do yourself a great injustice.

In a truly moral society, most of our current laws would not exist.

If we forget the past, individually or as a culture, we lose knowledge that has already been gained, and we lose valuable tools by which our knowledge may grow.

Color speaks all languages.

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry.

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

Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes might believe.

Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within.

The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.

Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation.

If you don't have at least a working knowledge of the Hawaiian language… you can't chant well. You cannot… receive the images of poetry paints for you. It's like having peas and no pod.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

Wine is poetry in a bottle.

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

Only in Russia poetry is respected - it gets people killed.

In Lithuania, I am known as a poet, and they don't care about my cinema. In Europe they don't know my poetry; in Europe, I am a filmmaker. But here, in the United States, I am only a maverick!

Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.

Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.

Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events.