About Quote by Philip Dunne

We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. The…

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Donovan

“Flowers bloomed without glimpsing your smile in spring, leaves have fallen in autumn chiming in with the gloom, the chill of winter has gone…

— Elizabeth E. Castillo

So poetry, which is in Oxford made An art, in London only is a trade.

— John Dryden

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry.

— Diane Wakoski

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

— David Hare

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

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 think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular interest. I…

— T. S. Eliot

When a poet mentions the spring, we know that the zephyrs are about to whisper, that the groves are to recover their verdure, the…

— Samuel Johnson

The longer I live and the more I read, the more certain I become that the real poems about spring aren't written on paper.…

— Hal Borland