Civilized Quote by Anthony Burgess

“Music in war is a candle in the darkness; it is a kindness in the Land of Rudeness; it is a civilisation in the…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“it is the violent poetry of times, written int he bllod of the youth”

— linda mendoza

“it is the violent poetry of the times, writen in the blood of the youth.”

— Linda Mendoza

“Poets write beautiful words to describe savagery-wrapped civilization nowadays.”

— Toba Beta

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

I think we got much better poetry when it was all regarded as sinful or subversive, and you had to hide it under the…

— Philip Larkin

Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

— Denis Diderot

“Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick, Youth must be foolish and mirthful and blind,…

— Tennessee Williams

“They had wandered in a defeated continent of the vulgar world, where vulgarity had lost its power and its pride, and had to repeat…

— Rebecca West

There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again.

— Edward Hirsch

If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.

— Henry David Thoreau

“I will praise your madness, and in a language not mine, speak of music that wakes us, music in which we move. For whatever…

— Ilya Kaminsky