poetry

Invented

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.   Peter Davison   Peter Malcolm Gordon Moffett (born 13 April 1951), known professionally as Peter Davison, is an English actor. He made his television acting debut… Read More ›

Poetry

I’m pretty much all for poetry in public places – poetry on buses, poetry on subways, on billboards, on cereal boxes.   Billy Collins William James “Billy” Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate… Read More ›

Collection

The Bible contains more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, more pure morality, more important history, and finer strains of poetry and eloquence than can be collected from all other books, in whatever age or language they may have been written…. Read More ›