Age Quote by John Dryden

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

— Ludwig van Beethoven

The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

— Matthew Arnold

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

— Christopher Morley

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.

— Babette Deutsch

Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets.

— George Farquhar

“Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that…

— Bryant McGill

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“The greatness of poetry comes from its struggle to express the rapture of the soul in the contemplation of beauty.”

— Anthony S. Maulucci

I will not go so far as to say, with a living poet, that the world knows nothing of its greatest men; but there…

— George Augustus Henry Sala

When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

— T. S. Eliot

The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.

— Leopold Schefer