Quote #43
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
More from Thomas Babington Macaulay
- The dust and silence of the upper shelf.
- Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
- Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
- There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
- We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
- The English Bible,-a book which if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beaut…
- Wherever literature consoles sorrow or assuages pain; wherever it brings gladness to eyes which fail with wakefulness and tears, and ache f…
- His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar.