Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. – Walter Scott Category: Poetry
Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values. – A. R. Ammons Category: Poetry
The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism – how should poetry escape? – John C. Ransom Category: Poetry
Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments. – Mark Strand Category: Poetry
Nothing is more noble than politeness, and nothing more ridiculous than ceremony. – Proverb Category: Manners
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less. – Jean De La Bruyere Category: Absence
