Quotes About Culture

The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself.

Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art of fiction?

England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk.

Poetry cannot be translation

I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry

More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry

I go to a lot of museums, I read a ton of poetry - anything that's a creative expression of oneself, I find really inspiring.

I never really liked "cool" books. I plowed through as much Borges and Joyce as possible, read the first half of V. and spent whole Bar Mitzvah checks on Beat poetry.

One can be well-bred and write bad poetry

I taught myself Russian, which was very, very useful, especially for poetry and in fact if you can't read Pushkin in Russian, you're really missing something.

It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.

Our best history is still poetry.

Are democracy and poetry exclusive of one another and, if so, why?

There is no access to contemporary poetry in the libraries.

Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts.

The attention deficit disorder of the culture is very distressing in America now and I think it puts a lot of things at risk, not just poetry.

Poetry had breathed over and sanctified the land.

Americans are not brought up with meter. They're not brought up with poetry. If you try to get them to recite, they're too embarrassed.

The language of the age is never the language of poetry, except among the French, whose verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in nothing from prose.

Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?

Poems are my link with the times, with the new life of my people.

How fortunate we are to exist in the moneyless economy of poetry! When you take money out of the equation, anything goes and nobody cares. It's truly free.

A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.