“Poetry is a river; many voices travel in it; poem after poem moves along in the exciting crests and falls of the river waves. None is timeless; each arrives in an historical context; almost everything, in the end, passes. But the desire to make a poem, and the world's willingness to receive it--indeed the world's need of it--these never pass.” WorldNeedsEndsMovingDesirePoetryFallVoiceRiversExcitingHistoricalWavePoetry IsWillingnessTimelessHistorical Context Book:A Poetry Handbook Source: A Poetry Handbook
“Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts.” ArtEndsValuesCulturePursuitPoetry IsIrelandOther Cultures Author:Campbell McGrath
“Modern" poetry is, essentially, an extension of romanticism; it is what romantic poetry wishes or finds it necessary to become. It is the end product of romanticism, all past and no future; it is impossible to go further by any extrapolation of the process by which we have arrived, and certainly it is impossible to remain where we are who could endure a century of transition ?” EndsPastWishProcessImpossibleModernCenturyProductsEndurePoetry IsTransitionExtensionsRomanticismRomantic PoetryModern Poetry Author:Randall Jarrell