Poetry Quote by Mary Stewart

“She was white, wore perfume and smiled openly with the Negro customers, so I knew she was sophisticated. Other people's sophistication tended to make…

— Maya Angelou

“He probably ate girls like her for breakfast. They all did. They all had. She had no intention of being eaten for breakfast, ever…

— Shannon McKenna

“Everyone is brilliant at breakfast.”

— Oscar Wilde

“I was once in a play called "Breakfast in Bed." Did you have a big role? No just toast and marmalade! ***”

— Various

“They call it poetry, what she feels with her mouth closed. By his.”

— self

“It was a scary thought. A man could be surrounded by poetry reading and not know it.”

— Richard Russo

“Eggs I must instantly have!" she announced. "And Lope de Vega I will not have, though in general a fine poet, but not in…

— Georgette Heyer

“It's the strangest thing about poetry: you can tell it's poetry, even if you don't speak the language.”

— Neil Gaiman

“Instead, he was astonished by what he had: the chance to sit beside this woman in the late afternoon light while she read.”

— Ann Patchett

“Poetry is anything you read out loud alone.”

— David Gordon

“She lived on a steady diet of hope and poetry.”

— John Mark Green

“I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he ate a dictionary and started vomiting up words at random.”

— Cassandra Clare