Books Quote by Carl Sandburg

One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of finding that,…

— Henry James

There's a line in The Barretts of Wimpole Street - you know, the play - where Elizabeth Barrett is trying to work out the…

— Susanna Kearsley

I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

“Is it that important? Wouldn’t it be more important to teach the least powerful? To help them make the most of what they do…

— Rainbow Rowell

“Wouldn’t it be more important to teach the least powerful? To help them make the most of what they do have? Should we teach…

— Rainbow Rowell

“Poetry wasn't written to be analysed: it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.”

— Nicholas Sparks

Above all, we ask the poet to teach us a way of seeing.

— Diane Ackerman

What shall I say about poetry? What shall I say about those clouds, or about the sky? Look; look at them; look at it!…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

“There are people who barely feel poetry, and they are generally dedicated to teaching it.”

— BORGES JORGE LUIS

I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem. Not a…

— James Dickey

“Poetry is a distinct faculty, - it won't come when called, - you may as well whistle for a wind.”

— George Gordon Byron

“Dad, who knew that Mother’s favorite poet was Browning and suspected where the Robert came from, nevertheless bunched the fingers of his right hand,…

— Frank B. Gilbreth Jr