Country Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Apart from having ‘National Poet’, ‘National Anthem’ etc., I hope it will not be irrelevant if there is ‘National Writer’ in every country!”

— Md. Ziaul Haque

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature. The United States themselves are essentially the…

— Walt Whitman

There are very few great poets in the world.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

— Giorgos Seferis

The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture, and the people.

— Joseph Brodsky

A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their souls in his hand…

— Johann Gottfried Herder

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for…

— Hannah Arendt

What is poetry which does not save nations or people?

— Czeslaw Milosz

What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.

— Franz Grillparzer

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