Modernism Quote by Campbell McGrath

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

— John Crowe Ransom

I cannot understand why poetry is not taught at schools as a way of seeing, a quick, untiring path to essentials.

— May Sarton

I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out…

— Lucy Larcom

Poetry is supposed to be musical. But people don't understand prose. They're so used to reading journalism - clunky, functional sentences that convey factual…

— Jonathan Lethem

Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip…

— Terry Eagleton

Poetry is easier to learn than prose. Once you have learned it you can use it as a light and a laser. It shows…

— Jeanette Winterson

I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.

— Peter Davison

Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just…

— James Fenton

It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than…

— Orson F. Whitney

For a lot of people, poetry tends to be dull. It's not read much. It takes a special kind of training and a lot…

— Thomas M. Disch

More people write poetry than read it.

— George Carlin

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating…

— Harold Bloom