Effort Quote by W. S. Merwin

“I'd hoped the language might come on its own, the way it comes to babies, but people don't talk to foreigners the way they…

— David Sedaris

All mystics speak the same language, for they come from the same country.

— Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

My book would come out in one language, then it would come out in another language, then it would come out in One City,…

— Sandra Cisneros

“Poetry is an old wise serpent which only occasionally comes out to catch the sun (and scare people).”

— Leila Samarrai

I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things.

— Bindi Irwin

When you speak a new language you must see if you can translate all of the poetry of your old language into the new…

— Dana Scott

Poetry doesn't necessarily need to be some erudite thing. Your mom telling you a story is just as much poetry as some old 17th…

— Arlo Parks

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from…

— Lafcadio Hearn

“She bleeds poetry. She is an old soul. She has already existed since the day the Earth gave birth to nature. She felt the…

— Verliza Gajeles

“There is no better recreation for the mind than the study of the ancient classics. Take any one of them into your hand, be…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power, or those…

— Adrienne Rich

They cannot make it say what they want it to say. And this is the beginning and the end of the case for retaining…

— Clifford Longley