Enjoy Quote by Gilbert Highet Download Open image “Most Americans do not like poetry. We may respect it, but we do not enjoy it.” — Gilbert Highet ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Enjoy Inspirational Love May Poetry
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
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
Poetry resonates differently in each culture; it doesn't in America. — Campbell McGrath 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
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
I'd say people do need some help with poetry because I think poetry just helps takes us to places that Americans aren't always accustomed… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than… — Orson F. Whitney 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
I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
I think many people love poetry who don't know they love it. People are sometimes afraid of poetry, or they've been introduced to poetry… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
The art of invective resembles the art of boxing. Very few fights are won with the straight left. It is too obvious, and it can betoo easily countered. The best punches, like the best pieces of invective in this style, are either short-arm jabs, unexpectedly rapid and deadly; or else one-two blows, where you prepare your opponent with the first… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share
The wise teacher knows that 55 minutes of work plus 5 minutes laughter are worth twice as much as 60 minutes of unvaried work. — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered,… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching. — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
“Books are not lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on shelves!” — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
“These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on shelves.” — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, - forcing their… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
The Fringe is by far my favorite time of year; I like everything about it. But there are people I know who are much… — Alex Horne Copy Share Image
I remember that the bass was turned up slightly more on the mix from last week, and I thought that was good - or whatever. Like, there were some little things in there that he said that he came to, like, really enjoy my opinion or at least, like, my little comments on the songs. So I was kind of… — Mark Ronson Copy Share
The Germans will make a few scattered attacks, then go away. The Romans will enjoy a fine September. — Pietro Badoglio Copy Share Image
I don't enjoy killing, but when done righteously, it's just a chore, like any other. — Joshua Copy Share Image
I enjoy upsetting the right people. I love poking fun at earnest censors. I want to push the bounds of what can be said… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
I don't own a yacht or a flashy car. I've always had safe cars because I do so much driving. I don't think I've… — Angela Rippon Copy Share Image
I really enjoy going to play for the national team and be with the guys. — Cedi Osman Copy Share Image
The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I really enjoy hosting, not necessarily because it provides more airtime, but because it allows me to be a part of more substantive discussions. — Samantha Ponder Copy Share Image
I really enjoy making people laugh; I've discovered that's a great technique. That's as powerful as stirring their sorrow, stirring their compassion, because that… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
