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

“When you are old and grey and full of sleep”

“After all, my erstwhile dear,”

“first of all nothing will happen”

“Where the bright seraphim in burning row”

“If poetry introduces the strange, it does so by means of the familiar. The poetic is the familiar dissolving into the strange, and ourselves with it. It never dispossesses us entirely, for the words, the images (once dissolved) are charged with emotions already experienced, attached to objects which link them to the known.”

“Sometimes, it’s the people who have been hurt the most who refuse to be hardened in this world, because they would never want to make another person feel the same way they have felt. If that isn’t something to be in awe of, I don’t know what is.”