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Harriet Monroe Quotes

1860–1936 United States

Harriet Monroe (December 23, 1860 – September 26, 1936) was an American editor, scholar, literary critic, poet and patron of the arts.

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

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

'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.

The New Poetry (1918)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Harriet Monroe (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.