“There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.”– Gyorgy Ligeti Related Quotes “Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can’t imagine ourselves living without.”– A. R. Ammons “Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life’s true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.”– Franz Grillparzer “All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.”– Oscar Wilde