“Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.”
Joseph Brodsky
“ Some .. see things that are ... and ask why ? I Dream things that never were ... and ask Why Not ! ”
G.B. Shaw
“If the puck doesn't get out of the zone by the third attempt (by the defending team), the puck will often not get out of the zone and the end effect is a goal.”
Scotty Bowman
“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the human heart can hold.”
Zelda Fitzgerald
“A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb”
W. H. Auden
“A poet who has not produced a good poem before he is twenty-five, we may conclude cannot, and never will do so.”
William Wordsworth
