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

“Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.”

“I sometimes think you despise poetry,' said Phineas.”

“I think i should get love inked on my skin.”

“You are that one breath. that puts all the remaining breaths. back into my body.”

“Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave”

“come back so i can say yes this time do it again now that i know what to call what you did”

“This is definitely / for the brothers / who ain't here.”

“The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it did in the miraculous months of April and May, 1819). Burns chose autumn. Longfellow liked the month of September. Shelley flourished in the hot months. Some poets, like Wordsworth, have gone outdoors to work. Others, like Auden, keep to the curtained room. Schiller needed the smell of rotten apples about him to make a poem. Tennyson and Walter de la Mare had to smoke. Auden drinks lots of tea, Spender coffee; Hart Crane drank alcohol. Pope, Byron, and William Morris were creative late at night. And so it goes.”