Poetry Quote by Ella Wheeler Wilcox — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“A weed is but an unloved flower.”

“We flatter those we scarcely know,”

“From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel their heft in my hand and the warm spot caused by their intimate weight in my lap; I loved the crisp whisper of a page turning, the musky odor of old paper and the sharp inky whiff of new pages. Leather bindings sent me into ecstasy. I even loved to gaze at a closed book and daydream about the possibilities inside.”

“Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.”

“Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.”

“Ah, the freshness in the face of leaving a task undone!”

“There is nothing”

“I sent my Soul through the Invisible,”