Harriet Monroe Quotes

“Poetry, perhaps the finest of fine arts, certainly the shynest and most elusive?, poetry which must have listeners, which cannot sing into a void.”

Harriet Monroe

'A Poets life, Seventy Years in changing world' Macmillan, New York 1938
A Poet 's Life (1938)

“A book of poems should have almost as many dedications as titles for the poet must always sing for some friend whether the friend knows it or not”

Harriet Monroe

Dedication 'You and I' Macmillan, New York October 1914
Other Quotes

“Verse libertines' pioneered the work to get rid of obstacles between that which hampered the poet and separated him from his audience, less a matter of rules and formulae, more a return of spirit.”

Harriet Monroe

The New Poetry (1918)

“What is new poetry? The difference is not mere details of form, measure rhyme schemes or diction, but a return to contemporary speech, thought, imagination and spiritual life, coupled with oriental (Japan & China) and cosmopolitan influences, and a direction of vision, with perfection of form and delicacy of feeling.”

Harriet Monroe

The New Poetry -An anthology ed Monroe & Henderson Macmillan 1918
The New Poetry (1918)