Because Quote by Stephen Greenblatt

Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and invention over…

— Mary Ruefle

Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began…

— James Fenton

“And yet it fills me with wonder, that, in almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best: whether it be…

— Samuel Johnson

Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral.

— James Fenton

See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.

— Eminem

The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the…

— Mary Ruefle

When I stand in a library where is all the recorded wit of the world, but none of the recording, a mere accumulated, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Poetry originated as a form of vocal music.”

— Dana Gioia

“Tieken has suggested, on the basis of the problems we have outlined, that all the Sangam poems in the major anthologies were composed to…

— David Dean Shulman

Poetry has roots, but they are sometimes cut off and still poetry is written.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its transmission today is still in part oral,…

— James Fenton