Culture Quote by Edward Hirsch

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

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he…

— W. H. Auden

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it…

— Mark Strand

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

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

“Most people in this country are looking for literature that is useful. They feel that just exploring their feelings is good enough - they…

— Erica Jong

I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger…

— C. K. Williams

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

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.

— Marguerite Young

If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than…

— Walt Whitman