More From Samuel Butler
- "Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness."
- "The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion."
- "We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them."
More In Poetry
- "The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair."― Jose Bergamin
- "I’d always loved poetry and I’d always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn’t thought of putting the two together until around that time."― Bruce Cockburn
- "However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can’t be much to it."― James Schuyler