“All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.”– Alfred Douglas Related Quotes “With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.”– Peter Abrahams “I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.”– Robert Morgan “I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock’n roll.”– Adrian Mitchell