Quotes by Scott, Sir Walter

Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal chee >>

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the o >>

The will to do, the soul to dare. >>

Quotations about Poetry and Poets

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. >>

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesicknes >>

Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal. >>

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Scott, Sir Walter