Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture, and the people.
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.
Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
Poetry is the mother-tongue of the human race.
Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.
America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?
Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country. It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world.