21st century Quote by R.M. Engelhardt

“In the forefront of our move toward change, there is only poetry to hint at possibility made real.”

— Anonymous

There is a set of emotions around money and new technology and advertising and that sort of thing, and there is this kind of…

— Alissa Quart

What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page.

— James Fenton

Poetry is an ongoing conversation with the past and the future and the present. I'm interested in that continuity, in that way of tying…

— Jonathan W. Galassi

Poetry is the way into a spiritual vision of society and the universe.

— Camille Paglia

Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.

— Diane Glancy

By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry…

— David Whyte

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

— Gaston Bachelard

Poetry and language are often at the heartbeat of movements for change.

— Amanda Gorman

“But something special happened to American poetry in the 19th century when Walt Whitman broke with more traditional English poetics and fashioned an American…

— Anonymous

“Poetry is a connection to a change within you.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

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