“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.”– Carl Sandburg Related Quotes “I’m conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There’s hardly a day that goes past on which I don’t write poetry.”– Ben Okri “It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.”– Gerard Manley Hopkins “The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”– Gilbert K. Chesterton