Claudia Rankine's book-length poem 'Citizen' was nominated…

Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.

— Ezra Pound

The main thing in poetry criticism is that I have all these opinions, and I love having something to do with them. And I…

— Dan Chiasson

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

— Matthew Arnold

Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur…

— David Lehman

In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than as the…

— Stephen L. Carter

Canada could have enjoyed: English government, French culture, and American know-how. Instead it ended up with: English know-how, French government, and American culture.

— Anonymous

And certainly in British culture, as I'm sure it's the same with American culture, we warm to cultures where people can make fun of…

— Omid Djalili

The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that it's the first time that perhaps the most important art form…

— Rafael Vinoly

I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy.

— John Hodgman

[If] we can celebrate that in a way that celebrates our love for New England as well as our love for the Italian culture…

— Mario Batali

“information, in a stream-of-consciousness soliloquy that revealed the extent to which he had internalised the adversarial fragmentation of American culture and made it a…

— Salman Rushdie

The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross.

— Fulton J. Sheen

“Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of…

— Bill Bryson

France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French…

— Tyler Cowen

“Medical studies have shown that cursing reduces levels of stress and pain. Repressing your anger is not healthy. It's much better to verbalize it,…

— Oliver Markus Malloy