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.
What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.
George Bernard Shaw
The event of falling in love is of such a nature that we are right to reject as intolerable the idea that it should be transitory. In one high bound it has overleaped the massive of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another in the centre of our being. Spontaneously and without effort we have fulfilled the law (towards one person) by loving our neighbour as ourselves. It is an image, a foretaste, of what we must become to all if Love Himself rules in us without a rival. It is even (well used) a preparation for that.
C.S. Lewis
I don't really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.
Norm MacDonald
...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.
Michael Ondaatje
To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.
Claudius
You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
John Ciardi
The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they eventually surpass him or her in knowledge and ability.
Fred A. Manske, Jr.
You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president. A president has many roles.
James Baker
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
Victor Hugo
There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always out.
Thomas L. Masson
I knew a girl that was so ugly that... I took her to a dog show and she won first prize.
Rodney Dangerfield
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
Augustus Hare
