#poe

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#before #begun #did #enough #folk

Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little. ↗

— John Galsworthy

#dreams #human-nature #inspirational-quotes #john-galsworthy #nobel-laureate

And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#breezes #child #dreaming #poetry #sunsets

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#great #may #more #never #novelists

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet. ↗

— Peter Davison

#lot #many #more #more people #people

If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets. ↗

— Peter Davison

#realistic #were

But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most. ↗

— Peter Davison

#being #books #could #crucial #editor

But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me. ↗

— Peter Davison

#matters #me #my life #poetry

For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative. ↗

— Peter Davison

#better #better now #i #indicative #instance

Frost is the most sophisticated of poets. ↗

— Peter Davison

#most #poets #sophisticated