Culture Quote by Edward Hirsch

There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world.

— Edward Hirsch

In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek…

— Octavio Paz

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where…

— 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

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

Poetry is a language used in a different way.

— Anonymous

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is…

— Thomas Lynch

The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power, or those…

— Adrienne Rich

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

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

— David Biespiel

Poetry is not the language we live in. It's not the language of our day-to-day errand-running and obligation-fulfilling, not the language with which we…

— Tracy K. Smith