Art Quote by Campbell McGrath

In England especially, poetry's woven into the background fabric of society. And in Ireland, it's in the foreground. The place of the poet in…

— David Whyte

I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not…

— Mark Strand

Ireland is not at all a simple place, and in many ways it is spare and sad. It has no wealth, no power, no…

— Shana Alexander

For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a social class that considers poetry its property…

— Robert Pinsky

Poetry is like air. It's one of the necessary things. Everyone benefits from poetry. And as you know, poetry is international. There are only…

— Nikki Giovanni

I think the culture can absorb so many people writing poetry and trying to earn their living in poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

There was engrained poetry and then when you look back at our history and in the 20th century, the last century, probably the greatest…

— Gavin Friday

I have always loved American poetry, which is very different from Irish poetry.

— Eavan Boland

Most Americans do not like poetry. We may respect it, but we do not enjoy it.

— Gilbert Highet

I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time.…

— Eavan Boland

Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets,…

— Erica Jong

Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is…

— Adrienne Rich