Michael Williamson

“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

“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
― Wallace Stevens

“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.”
― Dylan Thomas