“Through pity, then, I can't resist delivering a song of bliss when witnessing the painful trace that love leaves in a young girl's face. I try to teach them, through my song, love of that kind will not last long, because, just as my song relents, love rarely stays when it descends on children's hearts, but meets its death the way that warmth fades on our breath.” LovePoetryLost LoveNightingale Book:The Owl and the Nightingale Source: The Owl and the Nightingale
“Who speaks well ... fights well,' goes the song; she'd wage war with her voice instead. 'To fight well, speak well,' Alfred said.” PoetryHumorous QuotesWords Are Powerful Book:The Owl and the Nightingale Source: The Owl and the Nightingale
“As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of poets: those who want to tell stories and sing songs, and those who want to work out the chemical equation for language and pass on their experiments as poetry.” WantKindArtI CanTwoStoriesPoetrySongLanguagePoetWork OutExperimentsChemicalsEquations Author:Simon Armitage
