Generations Quote by Clarence Day

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

— Kenneth Koch

Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

“For all but the sliver of poetry fans, over the past forty years popular song lyrics have been the nation’s poetry.”

— John McWhorter

True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age.

— Sophie Swetchine

Times are such that poetry has been slowly drifting away from our songs and the language of conversation is used a lot more as…

— M. Jayachandran

Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.

— Louise Bogan

Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.

— Heinrich Heine

Every generation gets a chance to change the world Pity the nation that won't listen to your boys and girls Cos the sweetest melody…

— Alvin Toffler

The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have else they will never have better.

— Harriet Monroe

To my generation no other English poet seemed so perfectly to express the sensibility of a male adolescent. If I do not now turn…

— W. H. Auden

The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.

— Edmund Clarence Stedman