Bildungsroman Quote by Roman Payne

“When first I saw it moving across the waves I readied myself, stood steadfast, armed for the battle ahead. But then as she stood…

— Casey Hill

“Queen you shall be, until there comes another, younger and more beautiful, to cast you down and take all that you hold dear.”

— George R.R. Martin

“The heroine of my writings is She, whom I love with all the forces of my being, She who always was, is and will…

— Leo Tolstoy

“You must seduce poetry with the heart of your words before she'll sprinkle you with the magic of hers.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

“With women poets we look at or into, but not up at, sacred things; we unlearn submission.”

— Alicia Ostriker

“Sufficiently entranced, she will pass the day somewhere else, in a world that understands her unelaborate hopes and grants to the lonely soul of…

— Steve Kilbey

“Poetry can have varied and useful functions; and seduction is apparently something worth writing poetry for.”

— Shira Wolosky

“You will never know how to tarnish the devotion Of my passion for the beauty of women, that my verse acclaims”

— Renée Vivien

“[Poetry] strips the veil of familiarity from the world, and lays bear the naked and sleeping beauty which is the spirit of its forms.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“She was sunshine on a rainy day, a rainbow against gray clouds, hope in a Catholic school uniform. She was why poetry was written…

— S.L. Scott

“Poetry is the coronation of literature, and a majestic form of writing.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“She was sweetness and light, gentleness and goodness, and the burning and searing goal of all his earthly hunts and fascinations.”

— Sylvain Reynard