2002 in Literature - Poetry

Poetry

  • Jim Dodge - Rain on the River
  • Linton Kwesi Johnson - Mi Revalueshanary Fren
  • Grazyna Miller - Alibi of a butterfly

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Famous quotes containing the word poetry:

    The science of Humboldt is one thing, poetry is another thing. The poet to-day, notwithstanding all the discoveries of science, and the accumulated learning of mankind, enjoys no advantage over Homer.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    It is at the same time by poetry and through poetry, by and through music, that the soul glimpses the splendors found behind the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings tears to one’s eyes, these tears are not the sign of excessive pleasure, they are rather witness to an irritated melancholy, to a condition of nerves, to a nature exiled to imperfection and which would like to seize immediately, on this very earth, a revealed paradise.
    Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

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