Quote by Hu Shih
On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that fr

On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people. – Hu Shih

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Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people. – Hu Shih

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On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger. – Hu Shih

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Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism and our second great philosopher was an agnostic. – Hu Shih

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More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race. – Andrew Motion

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I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes. – Mark Strand

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I dont live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does. – Charles Olson

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Poetry is a natural energy resource of our country.It has no energy crisis, possessing a potential that will last as long as the country. Its power is equal to that of any country in the world. – Richard Eberhart

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