Quotes · Skopia

6 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

Place·Wimbledon✕clear

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

1963

★ 3.6

Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark-a shining space With the grave’s narrowness, though not its peace.

1929

★ 3.5

Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.

The Persian Version · 1946

★ 3.5

Christ of his gentleness Thirsting and hungering, Walked in the wilderness; Soft words of grace He spoke Unto lost desert-folk That listened wondering.

1916

★ 3.5

Autobiography and memoir

There was no patriotism in the trenches. It was too remote a sentiment, and rejected as fit only for civilians.

Goodbye to All That · 1929

★ 1.9

Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. Of never acquiescing in a fraud; of never accepting the secondary-rate in poetry, painting, music, love, friends.

1969

★ 1.8