6th Century BC in Poetry

Famous quotes containing the words century and/or poetry:

“It is kindness to refuse immediately what you intend to deny.”
—Publilius Syrus (1st century B.C.)

“Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation.... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal of the primordial pact, poetry is the basic text, the foundation of the human order. Surrealism is revolutionary because it is a return to the beginning of all beginnings.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)