Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
“I Knew a Woman" I knew a woman, lovely in her bones, When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them;… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
“I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“She knew exactly how she ought to feel, for she was well read in our greater and lesser English poets, but the… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed. —VIDA D. SCUDDER,… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“We owned a garden on a hill, We planted rose and daffodil, Flowers that English poets sing, And hoped for glory in… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“Speaking of novels,’ I said, ‘you remember we decided once, you, your husband and I, that Proust’s rough masterpiece was a huge,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Socrates: “The corruption of the best things are the worst things.” Or, “The best, when corrupted, become the worst.” As one of… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
“When we recall the great influence which Spenser's poetry has exerted on English poets who have lived and written since his day,… — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
I'm about fifty years behind as far as my preferences go and I must say that the poets who excite me most… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The first thing you see in my hallway is a large 18th-century bust of Milton, who stares at me as I watch… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life. — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country's poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again,… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I have never felt inhibited in trying to write as well as the greatest English poets. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“This is a mere matter of the moment. I think I shall be among the English poets after my death.” — John Keats Copy Share Image
