Citations:poetry

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English citations of poetry

  • 1936, Robert Frost, “Build Soil”, in A Further Range:
    Oh, Meliboeus, I have half a mind
    To take a writing hand in politics.
    Before now poetry has taken notice
    Of wars, and what are wars but politics
    Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?
  • 2008, Geoffrey Sutton, Concise Encyclopedia of the Original Literature of Esperanto, Mondial, →ISBN, page 572:
    For him Esperanto is principally a language of poetry, which he uses to express his feelings and thoughts. He also writes poetry in Russian, and some poems of his exist in both Esperanto and Russian versions.