"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese." ― Gilbert K. Chesterton Topic(s): Poetry Tags: mysteriously, poets More From Gilbert K. Chesterton "A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen." "The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people." "There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds." More In Poetry "Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them."― John Drinkwater "Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life’s true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates."― Franz Grillparzer "People who don’t read seem to me mysterious. I don’t know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education."― Nina Bawden