Laws Joy Quote by G.K. Chesterton

“...and it made his heart shake to hear these things in the street or bus or dime store, the uninventable poetry, inside the pain,…

— Don DeLillo

“A swift rhythm is played out by my hands, a cadence known only to those who have strung tobacco. To many, the meter and…

— Brenda Sutton Rose

“It was so important to him, and he made it important to me: poetry, and language, and how we use it to remind ourselves…

— Lois Lowry

“I knew a very wise man . . . that . . . believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads…

— Andrew Fletcher

“That was how we spoke, my mother and I: in puns and games and rhymes. In, you might say, lyrics. This was our tragedy.…

— Salman Rushdie

“If a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundation of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He was in fact a poet without words, the more absorbed and endangered, that the springing waters were dammed back in his soul, where,…

— George MacDonald

“And the greatest of the poets, when he defined the poet, did not say that he gave us the universe or the absolute or…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of the praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be of the…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Poetry is no rocket science, a good poet writes from his heart!”

— Saru Singhal

“Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into…

— Thomas Carlyle

“Did the poet know how lucky he was, to have such beautiful words and a place to put them and keep them?”

— Ally Condie