Books Quote by Rita Dove

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

Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.

— Louise Bogan

It's not realistic to imagine that any poem will last forever. Our species won't last forever! We try to capture and preserve our impressions…

— James Arthur

The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate.

— Wallace Stevens

A poem is like a child; at some point we have to let it go and trust that it will make its own way…

— Dorianne Laux

Everyone is their own kind of poet - you can't miss it when their words are written down.

— Sheila Heti

If the poem is so moving that even if you have no experience in that particular setting be it 1920's Harlem let's say. You…

— Rita Dove

Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise, not…

— Seamus Heaney

Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.

— George Orwell

Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

— Robert Frost

Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple brochure! When…

— Gaston Bachelard

This quality becomes important at a time when almost everyone is a poet. And as I said, we live in an age where almost…

— Clive James