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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

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

Whenever you're making an important decision, first ask if it gets you closer to your goals or farther away. — Jillian Michaels

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

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

They are not aesthetic like a puppy or a kitten. In fact, they always look drunk to me. Look at that one - you'd swear he had been hitting the gin. — Kerry Greenwood

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

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

Writing poetry is a state of free float — Margaret Atwood

Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention. — Margaret Mead

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

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

Once again our cricketers have flattered to deceive in Australia. — Ted Dexter

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

Sometimes with all the teasing his days were subtenable. — George Saunders

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

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

None but the brave can live with the fair. — Kin Hubbard

Nine out of ten adult Americans have a checking account. It's the most widely used financial services product in the United States. — Carolyn Maloney

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

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

Why give give up?
Why give in? — Breaking Benjamin

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

Sometimes it seemed as though he'd thumped his head on half the doors in Westeros, not to mention every beam in every inn from Dorne up to the Neck. — George R R Martin

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

Read the stories of the past to write your story for the future. — Habeeb Akande

Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present. — Regina Brett

I just wanted to give my players some technical advice. I told them the game had started. — Ron Atkinson

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

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

This is music that will disturb your imagination and
delight your heart-a rare combination. — Jeremy Begbie

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

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

It is also needless to add that without iced champagne and Roman punch a dinner is not called a dinner. — Charlotte Campbell Bury

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

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

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