Abandoned Quote by Bertrand Russell

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

— Andrew Motion

There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet…

— Tom Wolfe

“Offered a job as book critic for Time magazine as a young man, Bellow had been interviewed by Chambers and asked to give his…

— Christopher Hitchens

A poet may be a good companion, but, so far as I know, he is ever the worst of fathers.

— Irving Bacheller

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of…

— Walter Pater

All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.

— Umberto Eco

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.

— William Collins

Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.

— Oscar Wilde

The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

He was such a bad writer, they revoked his poetic license.

— Milton Berle

All of your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be vain if at the same time you did not build your…

— Mahatma Gandhi