"I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation"
- Anthony Hope
About this Quote
This quote is extracted from the unique "The Prisoner of Zenda" by Anthony Hope. It is talked by the personality Princess Flavia to the lead character Rudolf Rassendyll, who is a English gentleman. Flavia is suggesting that Rudolf's lack of direct exposure to poetry is restricting their conversations and also potentially his total depth of understanding and expression, which is discouraging for her. The quote highlights the worth of literature, specifically verse, in enhancing our discussions and also intellectual searches.
"We don't attempt to have any theme for a number of the anthology, or to have any particular sequence. We just put in things that we like, and then we try to alternate the prose and the poetry"
"Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going"
"I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that"
