Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

I haven't read anything but regurgitated rumors. Nothing new, and nothing true.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.