"The poem is the point at which our strength gave out." ― Richard Rosen Topic(s): Poetry More From Richard Rosen "If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication." More In Poetry "Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases."― William Shenstone "Poetry is a mere drug, Sir."― George Farquhar "Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful."― Rita Dove