20th century Quote by Robert Hass

I think that poets can say, "What we want is for everybody on earth to wake up free from fear and with access to…

— Robert Hass

Poets are political, they have to be reflections of their times [because] they're living in their times... Poetry is political in that it's standing…

— John Cusack

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

— James Fenton

We have a lot of long narrative poems written in the 20th century, but they're not very well known, and they're not read by…

— Robert Morgan

I look at the great poets of the Soviet Union, like Anna Akhmatova, who endured far worse then anything we've seen or hopefully that…

— Sara Paretsky

“In the nineteenth century, poetry was a bestselling genre rather than the cultish phenomenon it is now.”

— John McWhorter

“It is interesting to ponder the fact that there is no real difference between what the Western Fascists wanted of literature and what the…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.

— Helen Vendler

Under Stalin, artists weren't dissidents; all they hoped was to survive and write.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

Poetry is a big voice outside of who is a Democrat or whatever.

— Michele Lamy

Only in Russia poetry is respected--it gets people killed.

— Anonymous

The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed…

— Eric Hoffer