Classic Quote by Joseph Addison

I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my passion with…

— Arthur Smith

I like to move around in the landscape between poetry and prose, between the lyrical and the narrative.

— Rigoberto Gonzalez

I was attracted to poetry, which is perhaps the purest of the art forms, where love is the medium of exchange and the nobility…

— Frederick Lenz

Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her I look for fame.

— John Constable

I am more affected by the attractions of virtue than by the deformities of vice; I turn gently away from the wicked and I…

— Denis Diderot

When fiction writers like my poems I feel like I've hit the jackpot.

— Cate Marvin

“Although I love elegant parties, dancing and dining and spending the night with a sweet woman in my arms, my life belongs to literature.”

— Roman Payne

I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that…

— Pat Conroy

Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot.

— Chris Abani

But You know Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her that I look for fame - and all that the warmth of the…

— John Constable

On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person…

— J. K. Rowling

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

— J. Courtney Sullivan