"He fertilizes a phrase or a line of poetry for weeks and then gives birth to it in a speech." ― John Colville Topic(s): Poetry More In Poetry "Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted."― Percy Bysshe Shelley "The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry."― Lafcadio Hearn "The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry."― David Hare