Age Quote by Salvatore Quasimodo

I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn't…

— James Laughlin

“So the first thing about the history of rhyme . . . is that it’s all happened before. It’s all part of these huge…

— Nicholson Baker

“War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost. Poetics and philosophies disintegrate…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said.

— Robert Creeley

Poetry evokes out of words the resonance of the primordial world.

— Gerhart Hauptmann

Poetry and fiction have grieved for a century now over the loss of some vitality which they think they see in a past from…

— Guy Davenport

“The celebrated opening image of 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' is another case in point: Let us go then, you and I,…

— Terry Eagleton

Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

— Anonymous

over and over again I am struck by the wordiness of modern poetry, as if language had replaced experience and must be more and…

— May Sarton

“We looked into each other’s eyes, pushing the veil of reality to expose wondrous ether where time ceased to exist. Our bodies melted together…

— Ken Alexopoulos

A lot happens by accident in poetry.

— Howard Nemerov

Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space.

— Richard Corliss