The Making of Poetry Quotes

“The strange, unlikely and unfashionable claim of this year stems from that recognition: poetry can remake assumptions, reconfigure the mind and change the world.”
― Adam Nicolson, The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and Their Year of Marvels

“Wordsworth called poetry ‘the first and last of all knowledge’, using those words precisely: poetry comes both before and after everything that might be said.”
― Adam Nicolson, The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and Their Year of Marvels

“This was the subject that drew me: poetry-in-life, poetry-in-place, the body in the world as the instrument through which poetry comes into being.”
― Adam Nicolson, The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and Their Year of Marvels

“two young men of genius, living for a while on the edge of the Quantock Hills in Somerset, began to find their way towards a new understanding of the”
― Adam Nicolson, The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and Their Year of Marvels