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Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it. — Maurice Druon

We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm. — Bill Gates

I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes. — Taylor Momsen

An English girl might well believe
that time is how you spend your love. — Nick Laird

She saw poetry where other writers merely saw failure to cope with English. — Alice Walker

Don't ask about my past. And never expect a future. — Colleen Hoover

[Poetry] is a field where England can take on all challengers. — Patrick Leigh Fermor

I was going to get the Carolyn Bessette story out of her one way or another. — Michael Bergin

Within our mandate, the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. Believe me, it will be enough. — Mario Draghi

To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act. — Mahatma Gandhi

Prego." He scampers off. Sean — Ted Galdi

I did best when I had least truth for my subjects. — John Donne

That's so mature. I thought we were past junior high school." - Arelia
"We may be, but boys will never be" - Sabrina — Kira Saito

Modern poetry, for me, began not in English at all but in Spanish, in the poems of Lorca. — W.S. Merwin

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English. — Robert Morgan

I never had much education in English poetry as such. — Anne Carson

Maurice hated cricket. It demanded a snickety neatness he could not supply. — E. M. Forster

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments. — Mark Strand

Are we far from the conclusion of this Project? The Prince had asked after dinner. We — Andy Jarvis

English kings married their cousins and so their kids were as sharp as clubs. — Peter Prasad

Writing poetry is a state of free float — Margaret Atwood

Great poetry, whether written in Greek or in English, needs no other interpreter than a responsive heart. — Helen Keller

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. — Stephen Greenblatt

I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it:
The past, present, and future walk into a bar - it was tense. — Kelli Russell Agodon

To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night. — Grace Paley

The length and shape of the poemetto, like the greater Romantic lyric of English poetry, lends itself to retrospection and commentary. — Susan Stewart

I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. — Diane Wakoski

If I wouldn't of spent so much time shooting spit wads at my English teacher I'd know how to punctuate good thing I normally write poetry. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy. — George Edward Woodberry

When I'm writing poetry, 99.9% of my writing begins in English. I spent most of my life in English, although I am bilingual. — Pat Mora

Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs
Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs. — Robert Frost

I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read. — Jack Prelutsky

Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature. — William Rounseville Alger

We're building prisons all over the world and calling them luxury condos. — J.G. Ballard

With one perfect kiss on one perfect English summer afternoon, we understand the meaning of all the colors of every rainbow, forevermore. — Hunter S. Jones

It's really rather easy to write eighth-century Chinese poetry," said Angus Lordie. "In English, of course. It requires little effort, I find. — Alexander McCall Smith