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.
Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!
J.K. Rowling
The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
Ralph Marston
It's everyone's destiny to be glooped at some point in their life.
Anthony Stewart Head
In the discovery of secret things, and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators.
W.S. Gilbert
Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.
John Ruskin
We may live for a hundred years, but not one moment of these hundred years can be returned, not even if we are prepared to pay millions of dollars. We cannot add a moment, nor can we get a moment back. If time is money, we should just consider how much money we have lost.
Swami Prabhupada
I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation -- they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.
Lord (George Gordon) Byron
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Jean Rostand
While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.
J.B.S. Haldane
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
Jesse Owens
I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.
Albert Einstein
When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses.
Walter Russell