Believe Quote by Robert Graves

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.

— Robert Graves

“I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to read them…

— C.S. Lewis

“A man's most vivid emotional and sensuous experience is inevitably bound up with the language that he actually speaks. (New Bearings in English Poetry)”

— Anonymous

Perhaps first and foremost is the challenge of taking what I find as a reader and making it into a poem that, primarily, has…

— Marilyn Hacker

“You have already achieved the English-Language poet's most important goal: you can read, Write and speak English well enough to understand this sentence.”

— Stephen Fry

I have never felt inhibited in trying to write as well as the greatest English poets.

— Derek Walcott

An English poet writes, I think, just for people who are interested in poetry. An American poet writes, and feels that everyone ought to…

— Stephen Spender

Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems.

— Mary Oliver

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust…

— F. L. Lucas

We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure…

— Robert Falcon Scott

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

— Stephen Greenblatt

“The greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. He could have done…

— James Baldwin