H. P. Lovecraft Quotes

Some people think that English poetry begins with the Anglo-Saxons. I don't, because I can't accept that there is any continuity between the traditions of Anglo-Saxon poetry and those established in English poetry by the time of, say, Shakespeare. And anyway, Anglo-Saxon is a different language, which has to be learned.

The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.

We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy.

The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.

There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.

Elizabeth Bishop in particular had a big impact on me personally as well as artistically. Her insistence on clarity is something I rate very highly.

My mother was a children's librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children's literature. It gave me this weird idea that I was English.

Pope John Paul II brought hope to all corners of the world, to people of all faiths and backgrounds, with his powerful belief in the human spirit.

You cannot underestimate the influence of Shakespeare.

In the case of Papa Pope, certainly he's making his daughter's world and the world of the republic a much better place.

I've always loved English and loved English music and TV shows.

While Shakespeare wasn't the first voice in the room, in North America and Europe, he's one of the loudest voices.

To be blunt, I feel like lyricism in Spanish is of a different quality than English. You can get really poetic in Spanish, but I feel like if you do that in English, you risk sounding cheesy. In Spanish, it's never that. It's always this deep, passionate, beautiful imagery; it's painted different, a different color.

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.

The glorious Dryden, refiner and purifier of English verse, did less for rhyme than he did for metre.

And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.

All of Victorian verse is pentameter.

Milton, thou should'st be living at this hour.

I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death.

Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible.

Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.

The literature of the world has exerted its power by being translated.

Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?

Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it.

The Pope appeals for disinterested solidarity and for a return to person-centred ethics in the world of finance and economics.