"I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings."
― Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Topic(s):
Poetry
More In Poetry
- "Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it’s timeless, that it reaches back."― Robert Morgan
- "I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn’t seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago."― James Laughlin
- "In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime."― Phyllis McGinley