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- I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. — Henry David Thoreau
- For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. — Tahar Ben Jelloun
- Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. — George Bernard Shaw
- 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. — Lascelles Abercrombie
- Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind. — Lascelles Abercrombie
- The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read. — Lascelles Abercrombie