Children Quote by Jay Woodman

“The children walk away from me, flick flickety off at a tangent between thin blotched beech trunks, then turn like yo-yos at the end…

— Jay Woodman

[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have…

— T. S. Eliot

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

I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will never make…

— P. G. Wodehouse

Poets have a sense of place. My place was London, and I sang about it.

— Donovan

“I made these sonnets out of wood; I gave them the sound of that opaque pure substance, and that is how they should reach…

— Pablo Neruda

“Subtle salvation in poems and prose, Hiding our heads in some shadow of home I wasn't looking for wreaths or for bells, Just someone…

— Toad The Wet Sprocket

“A LITTLE while, a little while, The weary task is put away, And I can sing and I can smile, Alike, while I have…

— Emily Brontë

“Therefore, at Pentecost, which brings The Spring, clothed like a bride, When nestling buds unfold their wings, And bishop's-caps have golden rings, Musing upon…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Employment in the Small Bookstore" Twelve Poems, 1975 The dust is almost motionless in this narrowness, this stillness, yet how unlike a coffin it…

— Denis Johnson

your lives be as full and happy as ours,and may the seasons be kind to you and your friends. The door of our Abbey…

— Brian Jacques

“Here they have no time for the fine graces of poetry, unless it freely grows in deep compulsion, like water in the well, woven…

— Iain Crichton Smith