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Modern Poetry Quotes & Sayings

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The further the fall, the greater the hurt. — Publilius Syrus

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry. — Randall Jarrell

There is nothing great about having sex or 'not having' sex. — Daya Kudari

Your faith will manifest itself as you set your goals out clearly before you — Sunday Adelaja

The wonder is that communism lasted so long. But then again, modern poetry lasted a long time, too. — P. J. O'Rourke

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

His correction of our perception is called the Atonement. — Marianne Williamson

We learned then that war was not a quick heroic charge but a slow, incredibly complicated matter. — John Steinbeck

Sometimes I hear
screaming like a child
and wake up
to find it's me — Stephen Fitzsimons

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this. — Diane Wakoski

I'm 99 today and I'll be 100 tomorrow. It's another day. — John Morton

I spend at least a couple hours a day in the studio, every day, whether I'm dancing or not. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

More modern poetry is written than read. — P. J. O'Rourke

Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature. — Helen Vendler

I do not know much about gods;but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable ... — T. S. Eliot

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English. — Robert Morgan

Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure. — Muriel Rukeyser

Dare to realize your dreams. Dare to dream your reality.

- Master Wei
Priest of the K'un Lun — Joseph J. Bailey

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

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm. — Terry Eagleton

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does. — Robert Morgan

Remember The Poem ... — R.M. Engelhardt

There is no real way to categorize McLean's 'American Pie' for its hybrid of modern poetry and folk ballad, beer-hall chant and high-art rock. — Douglas Brinkley

The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry. — Muriel Rukeyser

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

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

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

Run the race set before you with integrity, and you will make a difference. — Douglas W. Thomson

It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician. — Karl Weierstrass

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did. — Robert Lowell

With my ninth mind I resurrect my first
and dance slow to the music of my soul made new. — Aberjhani

That we have ignored the lessons of modern war poetry speaks volumes to the lack of concern for that which we do not endure. — David McDonald

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life. — John Betjeman