Modern Poetry Quotes

Modern Poetry Quote of the day

You know I have about the same interest in jewelry as I have in politics, horse racing, modern poetry, and women who need weird excitement – none.

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

The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.

Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.

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.

All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.

Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.

Documentary is, therefore, an approach, which makes use of the artistic faculties to give vivification to fact - to use Walt Whitman's definition of the place of poetry in the modern world.

While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

The wonder is that communism lasted so long. But then again, modern poetry lasted a long time, too.

sometimes I hearscreaming like a childand wake upto find it’s me