Modern Poetry Quotes
11 Modern Poetry quotes by 9 unique authors
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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You know I have about the same interest in jewelry as I have in politics, horse racing, modern poetry, and women who need weird excitement…
— Cary Grant
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an…
— Walter Pater
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While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of…
— David Antin
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The wonder is that communism lasted so long. But then again, modern poetry lasted a long time, too.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.
— Cyril Connolly
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But Carroll's were more convoluted, and they struck me as funny in a new way: 1) Babies are illogical. 2) Nobody is despised who can…
— Steve Martin
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Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca.
— W S Merwin
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More modern poetry is written than read.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
— Robert Morgan
Who Wrote These Modern Poetry Quotes
9 authors contributed a total of 11 Modern Poetry Quotes as follows: