1611 in Literature - Poetry

Famous quotes containing the word poetry:

“Like speaks to like only; labor to labor, philosophy to philosophy, criticism to criticism, poetry to poetry. Literature speaks how much still to the past, how little to the future, how much to the East, how little to the West.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)