“I don’t know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.”– Zona Gale Related Quotes “The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.”– Peter Davison “I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn’t read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.”– Peter Porter “Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.”– Wallace Stevens