Quotes About Culture

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

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

I myself have never called what I write anti-poetry. I also think that my poetry should not be only known as the poetry of Ernesto Cardenal but rather as Nicaraguan poetry.

I feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we have to fight for it.

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

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.

It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz.

Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose for art quite explicit.

Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.

I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system.

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.

I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the rest of the world.

If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.

Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember.

I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.

The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan.

We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the Athenians wrote poetry. The Spartans did not.

The poetry of country music will survive.

America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.

Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.

I have always loved American poetry, which is very different from Irish poetry.

An English poet writes, I think, just for people who are interested in poetry. An American poet writes, and feels that everyone ought to appreciate this. Then he has a deep sense of grievance . . .