“Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.”– Walter Scott Related Quotes “Poetry says the things that I can’t say. I read a lot, but I never write it.”– Trevor McDonald “Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.”– Jean Cocteau “When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.”– Denis Diderot