"Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty."

Poetry, Children, Poets

13

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty."

Exlpore more Poetry quotes

"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Poetry, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Inspirational

"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Poetry, Beauty, Inspirational, Truth, Happiness

"Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Poetry, Creativity, Wisdom, Inspirational, Truth

"The secret of poetry is never explained - is always new. We have not got farther than mere wonder at the delicacy of the touch, & the eternity it inherits. In every house a child that in mere play utters oracles, & knows not that they are such. 'Tis as easy as breath. 'Tis like this gravity, which holds the Universe together, & none knows what it is."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Poetry, Wonder

"The crown of literature is poetry."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Poetry, Literature

"A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it."

John Green, American Author

Poetry, Reading, Understanding, Truth

"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Poetry, Expression

"A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Poetry, Imagination, Words, Emotion

"Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Poetry, Beauty, Peace, Happiness, Love

"Five syllables," Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. "That would be real bad."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Poetry, Humor, Truth, Wisdom, Power

Explore more quotes by Dennis Potter

"The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in."

Trouble

"The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself."

Work

"I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself."

Illness

"Television's Mr. Filth: that's me."

Television

"Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures."

Children

"Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative."

Myth

"The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose."

Knowledge

13

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Poetry quotes

"You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!"

"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."

"Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others."

"The crown of literature is poetry."

"A poem can't do its work if you only read snippets of it."

"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."

"A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion."

"Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."

"Five syllables," Apollo said, counting them on his fingers. "That would be real bad."

Explore more quotes by Dennis Potter

"The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in."

"The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself."

"To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there."

"You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself."

"Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word."

"I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself."

"Television's Mr. Filth: that's me."

"Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures."

"Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative."

"The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose."