There are thousands of minor poets, but poetry has ceased to be a minor subject. Any one mentally alive cannot escape it. Poetry is in the air, and everybody is catching it.
~ William Lyon Phelps ~
[Note: from The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century, published 1919.]
I do believe we've all come down with it here at Poetry Friday anyway.
ReplyDeleteI love how fresh his words sound, despite their being written nearly a century ago!
ReplyDelete"Poetry is in the air..."
ReplyDeleteYes!