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

“You just go on your nerve.”

“Think long thoughts in short sentences.”

“We, unaccustomed to courage”

“It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,—a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form.”

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”

“We flatter those we scarcely know,”