Able Quote by Alice Corbin Henderson

A policy of expansionism and conquest has no future in the modern world.

— Vladimir Putin

I have never read a line of Walt Whitman.

— Mary MacLane

“The most important events in every age never reach the history books.”

— C.S. Lewis

There is no access to contemporary poetry in the libraries.

— Kwame Dawes

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.

— Rebecca Harding Davis

“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

The American public does not know poets exist.

— James Broughton

a poet never feels useful.

— May Sarton

“Poems were never meant to be forced into commands.”

— Rachel Held Evans

“What history will say about us is of no importance; because we will be gone when the history judges about us.”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.

— Helen Vendler

The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson