“There's nothing great Nor small, has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not be thrown out by the matin's bell.” SaidVoicePoetRingsThrownBellsCurfew Book:Poetical works Source: Poetical works
“I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly.” GrowsTearsPoetRingsGladStringsSorrowful Author:James Russell Lowell
“We could think or feel as we wished toward the characters, or as the poet, discounting history, invited us to; we were the poet's guest, his world was his own kingdom, reached, as one of the poems told us, through the 'Ring of Words.” ThinkingWorldFeelsCharacterPoetRingsKingdomsGuestsInvited Book:The Complete Autobiography Source: The Complete Autobiography
“When I said. A rose is a rose is a rose. And then later made that into a ring I made poetry and what did I do I caressed completely caressed and addressed a noun.” MadeSaidPoetryLanguagePoetRoseRingsNouns Book:Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein Source: Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein