Famous quotes containing the words poetic and/or language:
“I could I trust starve like a gentleman. Its listed as part of the poetic training, you know.”
—Ezra Pound (18851972)
“Please stop using the word Negro.... We are the only human beings in the world with fifty-seven variety of complexions who are classed together as a single racial unit. Therefore, we are really truly colored people, and that is the only name in the English language which accurately describes us.”
—Mary Church Terrell (18631954)