Famous quotes containing the words worst and/or poetry:
“If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)
“As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)