Conversation Poems

Famous quotes containing the words conversation and/or poems:

    “Johnson’s conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young child’s mouth.”
    —Hester Lynch Thrale (1739–1821)

    “No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.”
    —Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8 B.C.)