Poetry
- Seamus Heaney – Death of a Naturalist
- Anne Sexton – Live or Die
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Famous quotes containing the word poetry:
“It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.”
—Boris Pasternak (1890–1960)
“Most people ignore most poetry
because
most poetry ignores most people.”
—Adrian Mitchell (b. 1932)
“Much of our poetry has the very best manners, but no character.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)