There's never been a culture without poetry in the history…

There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world. In every culture, in every language there is expressive play, expressive…

— Edward Hirsch

Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are…

— Denise Duhamel

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

— Juan Ramon Jimenez

In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture. Poetry is a popular genre in Afghanistan.…

— Eliza Griswold

Poetry has its uses for despair. It can carve a shape in which a pain can seem to be; it can give one’s loss…

— Christian Wiman

To separate journalism and poetry, therefore-history and poetry-to set them up at opposite ends of the world of discourse, is to separate seeing from…

— Archibald MacLeish

“The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual…

— Anonymous

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

— Thomas Carlyle

The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men…

— G. M. Trevelyan

“The dead were and are not. Their place knows them no more and is ours today... The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous…

— G. M. Trevelyan

“What I have always loved about the history of the world is that it is true. That all the extraordinary things we read were…

— Gombrich Ernst H

The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done, man did…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The history of the world - by which, of course, we mean Europe - is a record of intertribal lacerations, of ethnic cleansings.

— Derek Walcott

The history of the world is the history of the privileged few.

— Henry Miller

The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves. That faith calls out the divinity within.…

— Swami Vivekananda