Logo
Quote by Walter Scott
Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom

Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. – Walter Scott

Other quotes by Walter Scott

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. – Walter Scott

Category:
best
Author
Walter Scott
Read Quote

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. – Walter Scott

Category:
Truth
Author
Walter Scott
Read Quote

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. – Walter Scott

Category:
Education
Author
Walter Scott
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category

As for political poetry, as its usually defined, it seems theres very little good political poetry. – Kenneth Koch

Category:
Poetry

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mugs game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. – T. S. Eliot

Category:
Poetry

Poets are candid. They tell us not under an abstract, but an individual form, in which reality breathes, what humanity thinks in the most secret recesses of its mind. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

Category:
Poetry

The poet doesnt invent. He listens. – Jean Cocteau

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark…. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. – Germaine Greer

Category:
Libraries

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits. – Greil Marcus

Category:
Struggle

Quotology disdains no quotations whatsoever, a duty it bears stoutly, with bloodshot eyes and sagging shelves. – Willis Goth Regier, Quotology, 2010

Category:
Quotations

The post of honor is a private station. – Joseph Addison

Category:
Honor