The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads to madness. – Christopher Morley, Inward Ho!
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People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach us how to talk to other people: it teaches us how to talk to ourselves. What I – Harold Bloom
Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course. – John Drinkwater
Of all the months of the year there is not a month one-half so welcome to the young, or so full of happy associations, as the last month of the year… – “All the Year Round: December,” All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal Conducted b
Im as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, Im much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons. – Marguerite Young
