Bites Quote by Henry James

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

— Carl Sandburg

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

“Even in their reading, More charged, too many women were prone to superficiality. In search of a passing knowledge of books and authors, many…

— Karen Swallow Prior

When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left out of…

— Edward Hirsch

We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of…

— Elizabeth Drew

“When I write poetry, I’ll write it down, or a tiny bit of it, and then have to depend on the reader to bring…

— William Anderson

“he shewed himself so intimately acquainted with all the tenderest songs of the one poet, and all the impassioned descriptions of hopeless agony of…

— Jane Austen

Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A…

— T. S. Eliot

The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when…

— Linton Kwesi Johnson

There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.

— William Cowper

“She ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry; and to say, that she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to…

— Jane Austen