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

“Welcome, thou kind deceiver!”

“A thing well said will be wit in all languages.”

“But far more numerous was the herd of such,”

“A thing well said will be wit in all languages.”

“Fortune befriends the bold.”

“Fortune befriends the bold.”

“Sorrow (A Song)”

“Blackadder was fifty-four and had come to editing Ash out of pique. He was the son and grandson of Scottish schoolmasters. His grandfather recited poetry on firelight evenings: Marmion, Childe Harold, Ragnarok. His father sent him to Downing College in Cambridge to study under F. R. Leavis. Leavis did to Blackadder what he did to serious students; he showed him the terrible, the magnificent importance and urgency of English literature and simultaneously deprived him of any confidence in his own capacity to contribute to, or change it. The young Blackadder wrote poems, imagined Dr Leavis’s comments on them, and burned them.”

“Suddenly, everything was beautiful. The way she viewed the world was nothing more but a reflection of herself.”

“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”

“To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.”