Bleak house Quote by Simon Callow

'Bleak House' remains a great novel for me, and I love 'David Copperfield.'

— Sue Perkins

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the…

— Philip Levine

I love bleak things.

— Denise Mina

There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful.

— K'naan

The plot! The plot! What kind of plot could a poet possibly provide that is not surpassed by the thinking, feeling reader? Form alone…

— Franz Grillparzer

“What an incredible amount of poetry, of novels, of sociological solutions to the ills of the world! One supposes that poetry is written to…

— Augusto Monterroso

In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily…

— William Shenstone

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. It speaks of what seems…

— James Joyce

“Imaginative poetry produces a far greater mental strain than novels. It produces probably the severest strain of any form of literature. It is the…

— Arnold Bennett

“Why should it be any surprise that people find solace in the most intimate literary genre? Poetry slows us down, cherishes small details. A…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

I think great poetry is enormously powerful.

— Michael Cunningham