Citations:poetry

English citations of poetry

• 1936, Robert Frost, “Build Soil”, in A Further Range:

  Oh, Meliboeus, I have half a mind
  To take a writing hand in politics.
  Before now poetry has taken notice
  Of wars, and what are wars but politics
  Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?

• 2008, Geoffrey Sutton, Concise Encyclopedia of the Original Literature of Esperanto, Mondial, →ISBN, page 572:

  For him Esperanto is principally a language of poetry, which he uses to express his feelings and thoughts. He also writes poetry in Russian, and some poems of his exist in both Esperanto and Russian versions.