"Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary."
― Walter Scott
Topic(s):
Poetry
More From Walter Scott
- "A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect."
- "There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine."
- "All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education."
More In Poetry
- "Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate."― Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
- "In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry."― Danielle Steel
- "I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator."― Allen Ginsberg