“If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject… — Plato Copy Share Image
There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance… — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image