Clergyman's

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

What is new poetry? The difference is not mere details of form, measure rhyme schemes or diction, but a return to contemporary speech, thought, imagination and spiritual life, coupled with oriental and cosmopolitan influences ,and a direction of vision, with perfection of form and delicacy of feeling.
- Harriet Monroe

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
- Harriet Monroe

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
- Harriet Monroe

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.
- Harriet Monroe

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.
- Harriet Monroe