Age Quote by Guillaume Apollinaire

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed.…

— Guillaume Apollinaire

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

— Guillaume Apollinaire

Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death

— Ruben Dario

Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The fact that poetry is not of the slightest economic or political importance, that is has no attachment to any of the powers that…

— Graham Hough

Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.

— Matthew Arnold

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

The future of poetry is immense, because in poetry, where it is worthy of its high destinies, our race, as time goes on, will…

— Matthew Arnold

Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions…

— T. S. Eliot

After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end of being…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of…

— e. e. cummings

I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out…

— Lucy Larcom