20th century Quote by Robert Morgan

In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read…

— Caroline Kennedy

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

— Helen Vendler

More modern poetry is written than read.

— P. J. O'Rourke

There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“They're just people that write poems that get published and anthologized all over the place but they're not poets.”

— J.D. Salinger

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

— James Fenton

Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.

— John Updike

No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer…

— Ezra Pound

I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now.

— Norman MacCaig

We're trying to make something that lasts in language and there's no question that many fiction writers began as poets and it's hard for…

— Edward Hirsch

Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.

— Robert Giroux

I don't think poetry has a readership anywhere, really, that's that big.

— Derek Walcott