Eccentric Quote by Wallace Stevens

The more serious poetry of the race has a philosophical structure of thought. It contains beliefs and conceptions in regard to the nature of…

— Joseph Alexander Leighton

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Poetry fettered fetters the human race.

— William Blake

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

— Booker T. Washington

“Poets, the best of them, are a very chameleonic race; they take the colour not only of what they feed on, but of the…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I think that when a poem can move readers across generations and across its specific class or race then it becomes truly classic.

— Rita Dove

“I am a poem, or I am a pattern, or a race of people whose world was swallowed by the sea.”

— Neil Gaiman

“The story of race has become a self-fulfilling, self-perpetuating prophecy as the story creates the ideas, which then reinforce the story.”

— Debby Irving

“Race is neither an essence nor an illusion, but rather an ongoing, contradictory, self-reinforcing process subject to the macro forces of social and political…

— Ian F. Haney López

“The race we are in is a race against the disappearing life.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The human race may be compared to a writer. At the outset a writer has often only a vague general notion of the plan…

— Felix Adler