The quote suggests that the speaker has never engaged with poetry before. They convey a lack of exposure or interest in the genre, implying a limited understanding of and experience with poetic works.
Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown, and they only want you to make them laugh.
Fanny Brice
Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.
Maxwell Maltz
In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Being in love is the only transcendent experience.
Armistead Maupin
Ideas are fatal to caste.
E. M. Forster
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest. Ecclesiastes 9:10
Bible
Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.
Jack Kingston
And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.
Ernest Hemingway
Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true.
Elizabeth Gilbert
The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.
Sally Ride
A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.
George Gurdjieff
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Scott, Sir Walter
