Literature/poetry

Famous quotes containing the words literature and/or poetry:

“From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

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