America Quote by Campbell McGrath Download Open image “Poetry resonates differently in each culture; it doesn't in America.” — Campbell McGrath ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare America Culture Poetry
Most Americans do not like poetry. We may respect it, but we do not enjoy it. — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture. — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations? — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Americans have been tremendously fortunate in poetry, regarding both the quantity and quality of poetry produced. Unfortunately, it remains in schools and universities; it… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Poetry at large in America is naturally a reflection of the American system and culture. That's my possibly narrow view of it, or reductive… — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The attention deficit disorder of the culture is very distressing in America now and I think it puts a lot of things at risk,… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Dawn 5am: the frogs ask what is it, what is it? It is what it is.” — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as short or… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
The shape that poems make in the mind is an echo of something powerful in the cosmos. I do believe that, and that is… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
All of the arts are kin - music and sculpture and dance, those are wordless art forms. But poetry is defined by language. Of… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
I like each of my books to be different. Once I've done something I like to move on and push myself to learn new… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
I tend to write poetry that is rich in data of various sorts. The lyric poem isn't perfectly suited to accommodating such data, so… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
A poem employs both the sound and the sense of language, it treats words not just as signifiers but as a plastic medium of… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
Traditionally poetry is written in lines. But the prose poem is the kind of poem that isn't written in lines. It is lyrical prose… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
It's not surprising to me that books ended up playing a central role in my life, but it is somewhat mysterious that poetry did. — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are going to… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts. — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Today, the world looks to America for leadership. And America looks to its Corps of Marines. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes] — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We need a system that serves our needs, not the needs of others. Remember, under a Trump administration it's called America first. Remember that. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
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