"Sermonize" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have always felt, in their hearts, what the radicals of the present day are saying so vehemently, that the poet should not be expected to sermonize: "I wish to state my firm belief," says Amy Lowell, "that poetry should not try to teach, that it should exist simply because it is created beauty." [Footnote: Preface to Sword Blades and Poppy Seed. See also Joyce Kilmer, Letter to Howard W. ...
— The Poet's Poet • Elizabeth Atkins |
