172 Quotes About English-poet

He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod.

For me, poetry is always a search for order.

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

I don't know what idiocies drove me in those days, but they were naive, innocent idiocies in many ways.

I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow.

I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable.

I was reminding them of their lives and I think that was why it was read so much, but this was quite unintentional and unpredictable.