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"As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines."

Thomas B. Macaulay on Poetry

More quotes about Poetry

• "All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling."

  Oscar Wilde on Poetry

• "A poet can survive everything but a misprint."

  Oscar Wilde on Poetry

• "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things."

  T. S. Eliot on Poetry

• "Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."

  Robert Frost on Poetry

• "A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."

  Robert Frost on Poetry

More quotes by Thomas B. Macaulay

• "We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age."

• "The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power."

• "The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion."

• "The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power."

• "Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim."