Action Quote by Marshall McLuhan

What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm finding is…

— Adrienne Rich

The attention deficit disorder of the culture is very distressing in America now and I think it puts a lot of things at risk,…

— Edward Hirsch

if you don't exist in the arts of a culture, you're invisible. The arts are what express the soul of who we are and…

— Esmeralda Santiago

I think culture and art tell you what the soul of a nation is, and if we continue to chip away at the arts…

— Lesley Sharp

“What I have lately said of painting is equally true with respect to poetry. It is only necessary for us to know what is…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“being an artist: "And this susceptibility of theirs is doubly unfortunate , I thought, returning again to my original enquiry into what state of…

— Virginia Woolf

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

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

In America it's a particular problem. The artist, particularly the poet, is just unacknowledged; if I can use that dumb word. Maybe it has…

— Gerald Stern

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

— Lascelles Abercrombie

It is a mistake to suppose, with some philosophers of aesthetics, that art and poetry aim to deal with the general and the abstract.…

— Ernest Fenollosa

“One of the reasons I think we are sometimes critical of support for the arts is that art — lyric art in particular —…

— Jan Zwicky