Book of Poetry & Intresting/Favorite Quotes

Quote Session

For of all sad words of tongue or pen The saddest of these: "It might have been"

- John Greenleaf Whittier

"I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything."

- Steven Wright

"Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks."

- Plutarch

"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."

- Carl Sandburg

"Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted."

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."

- Thomas Hardy

"You can only step from a shadow of guilt, with words of truth."

- Megan Smith