Conversation Poems

Famous quotes containing the words conversation and/or poems:

“The conversation of prayers about to be said
Turns on the quick and the dead....”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

“Some poems are for holidays only. They are polished and sweet, but it is the sweetness of sugar, and not such as toil gives to sour bread. The breath with which the poet utters his verse must be that by which he lives.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)