Poetry Quote by Atticus Poetry — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Keep your head up, he said, you are a lion, don’t forget that and neither will the sheep.”

“Adventure runs on all sorts of whiskey.”

“Brushing a girl’s hair”

“She was not for everyone but she was for me.”

“I just need you and some sunsets.”

“Break my heart and you will find yourself inside.”

“Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate...”

“you can take this mouth”

“Poetry: the best words in the best order.”

“We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.”

“And each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.”

“Whenever Richard Cory went down town,”