Animosity Quote by Thomas B. Macaulay

Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.

— John Dryden

“One hundred copies? Of these poems you do not even like?” asked the Roman. “They’re nasty bits about famous people; everyone will want them.”

— Karen Essex

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

— Anatole Broyard

One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure.

— Muriel Rukeyser

Among the writers of antiquity there are none who instruct us more openly in the manners of their respective times in which they lived…

— Joseph Addison

what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“He wondered again at the easy, graceful manner in which the Roman lyricists accepted the fact of death, as if the nothingness they faced…

— John Williams

“The journey through another world, beyond bad dreams beyond the memories of a murdered generation, cartographed in captivity by bare survivors makes sacristans of…

— Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

I used to think all poets were Byronic Mad, bad and dangerous to know. And then I met a few. See Lamb 486:25.

— Wendy Cope

“Sometimes the pagan spirit of Roman poetry arouses qualms. Guibert of Nogent confesses in his autobiography that early in his monastic life he took…

— Joseph Gies

“All the same, we ought to point out that if the kinds of poetry and representation which are designed merely to give pleasure can…

— Plato

Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom?…

— Tom Stoppard