Michael Williamson

“Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”
― W.H. Auden, New Year Letter

“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander