For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry. – Paul Muldoon Category: Poetry
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. – A. E. Housman Category: Experience
We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair. – Philip Pullman Category: Fate