Popular Culture
- The line "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood" in the song "Around the World" references the poem 'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost. In the 1975 Maysles documentary, Little Edie paraphrased/misquoted some lines from the Frost poem.
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“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The very nursery tales of this generation were the nursery tales of primeval races. They migrate from east to west, and again from west to east; now expanded into the “tale divine” of bards, now shrunk into a popular rhyme.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you’d never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1953)