Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Harriet Monroe

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American poet Harriet Monroe.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Harriet Monroe

Harriet Monroe was an American editor, scholar, literary critic, poet, and patron of the arts. She was the founding publisher and long-time editor of Poetry magazine, first published in 1912. As a supporter of the poets Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, H. D., T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Carl Sandburg, Max Michelson and others, Monroe played an important role in the development of modern poetry. Her correspondence with early twentieth century poets provides a wealth of information on their thoughts and motives.

The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have else they will never have better.
Great ages of art come only when a widespread creative impulse meets an equally widespread impulse of sympathy . . .
Surely the vogue of those twisted and contorted human figures must be as short as it is artificial. — © Harriet Monroe
Surely the vogue of those twisted and contorted human figures must be as short as it is artificial.
Our little solos are a note in an immense chorus vibrating grandly through the universe, a chorus which accepts and harmonizes the whir of the cricket and the long drum-roll of the stars.
"Look into thy heart and write!" is good advice, but not if interpreted to mean, "Look nowhere else!" The poet should know his world and, so far as his art is concerned, any kind of battering from his world is better than his own self-indulgent brooding.
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