Entertainment Quote by Virgilio S. Almario

Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of…

— Adrienne Rich

The poet's role has changed over the centuries, the ages. The poets, the griots, used to be the keepers of the facts; they were…

— Malik Yusef

Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language.

— Diane Wakoski

The poem is not only the point of origin for all the language and narrative arts, the poem returns us to the very social…

— Ron Silliman

The poet's function is to make his imagination . . . become the light in the mind of others. His role, in short, is…

— Wallace Stevens

The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.

— Horace

Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things.

— John Dewey

Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking…

— Ralph Ellison

“Poetry was not meant to be a workhorse; it was not designed to paint pretty moral pictures of life; it was not brought into…

— Francis Beauchesne Thornton

In order to have a literature, a nation must live, not merely on the practical, but on the moral and spiritual plane as well,…

— Vissarion Belinsky

Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Poetry transcends the nation-state. Poetry transcends government. It brings the traditional concept of power to its knees. I have always believed poetry to be…

— Sam Hamill