The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.

As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.