“My hope, my heaven, my trust must be,My gentle guide, in following thee.”— Walter Scott Related Quotes “Well, I had this little notion – I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it it was my great refuge through adolescence.”– Harry Mathews “A billion stars go spinning through the night,glittering above your head,But in you is the presence that will bewhen all the stars are dead.”— Rainer Maria Rilke “Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.”– David Lehman