Beautiful Quote by David Grubbs

Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?

— George Crabbe

“It is the custom on the stage: in all good, murderous melodramas: to present the tragic and the comic scenes, in as regular alternation,…

— Charles Dickens

“Those long uneven lines Standing as patiently As if they were stretched outside The Oval or Villa Park, The crowns of hats, the sun…

— Philip Larkin

“some were simple idlers spending an inheritance pretending to be poets or painters; and a couple were medical students, who had a wildness of…

— Iain Pears

“There is nothing more foreign to the hermit than the clownery of a glittering career, success, and all those vulgar illusions that tempt the…

— Cornelius Wencel

“And I was a Child again, watching the bright World. But the Spell broke when at this Juncture some Gallants jumped from the Pitt…

— Peter Ackroyd

Nothing Rhymed,' my first single in England, was a nice ballad, which I thought would sound like a songwriter typical of the day -…

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

“was an advanced eccentric, and had the disconcerting habit of seizing people in the High Street of Edinburgh, and chanting and crooning these incomprehensible…

— Alistair Campsie

“Mr. Gruffydd turned to my father, and he blew the note on the reed pipe. Ivor raised his finger, and from top of the…

— Richard Llewellyn

“But, without preaching, the truth may surely be borne in mind, that the bustle, and triumph, and laughter, and gaiety which Vanity Fair exhibits…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Terence, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can’t be much amiss, ’tis clear, To see the rate you drink…

— A.E. Housman Marcus Manilius

O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!

— John Keats