Books Quote by Robert Graves

“English poetic education should, really, not begin with The Canterbury Tales, not with the Odyssey, not even with Genesis, but with Song of Amergin.”

— Robert Graves

With "poets dead and gone" as Keats says in "Mermaid Tavern" they are alive and talking to us and us to them.

— Gregory Orr

O ye dead Poets, who are living still Immortal in your verse, though life be fled, And ye, O living Poets, who are dead…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable.

— James Fenton

“He’d been young when he’d been turned, maybe late twenties. He looked tough, sinewy and strong, with close cropped sable hair and a sinfully…

— Evie Jayne

“I had started climbing trees about three years earlier, or rather, re-started; for I had been at a school that had a wood for…

— Robert Macfarlane

“THIS BOOK is about the reproduction of social advantage and disadvantage across generations in the experience of typical Baltimore youth, anchored in their childhood…

— Karl Alexander

“ Stop it, girl. There’s no way he’s five-years-old. Or one hundred. He’s probably like every other CEO on the planet: Late twenties, handsome…

— Andrew Shaffer

Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.

— Martin Amis

“Two thousand and seven was the year we officially entered our late twenties - the starting line of the death march to menopause.”

— Helena Andrews

If I had met Judd Nelson in my late twenties, I would have been pretty enamored!

— Jeremy Sisto

One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the early 'fifties'…

— John Szarkowski

I like myself so much better now. I've completely changed since quitting the tour. When I was playing, I was 21 years old and…

— Anna Kournikova

I was a cover artist for years. I didn't start writing songs until I was in my mid-twenties. I wrote them with John Leventhal,…

— Shawn Colvin

It took me a long time to make that leap to being a grown-up and responsible adult because I carried on being a child…

— Dexter Fletcher