Poetry Quote by Will Durant

“Carlyle's genius was many-sided. He touched and ennobled the national life at all points. He lifted a whole generation of young men out of…

— Hector Carsewell Macpherson

“From all my talks with Henri, even the most cordial, I have always left with a slight taste of defeat; of also having been,…

— Primo Levi

“With a little more time, patience, and hard work, and above all with a more sensitive taste for the formal aspects of arts, he…

— Gustave Flaubert

“The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come…

— Tahir Shah

“Suddenly, he wanted some credit for it. He wanted someone to thank him for not crapping on the institution of love. He wanted someone…

— Amity Gaige

Take [Stéphane] Mallarme. I hold him to be the greatest of French poets, and I have taken some time to understand him !

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“The French, it seems to me, strike a happy balance between intimacy and reserve. Some of this must be helped by the language, which…

— Peter Mayle

“Of all public figures and benefactors of mankind, no one is loved by history more than the literary patron. Napoleon was just a general…

— Roman Payne

“And Gareth bowed himself with all obedience to the King, and wrought All kind of service with a noble ease That graced the lowliest…

— Alfred Tennyson

“Poetry translation is like playing a piano sonata on a trombone.”

— Nataly Kelly

“THE POETRY TEACHER The university gave me a new, elegant classroom to teach in. Only one thing, they said. You can’t bring your dog.…

— Mary Oliver

“She lends her pen, to thoughts of him, that flow from it, in her solitary. For she is his poet, And he is her…

— Lang Leav