If we do not learn by heart, the heart does not feel the rhythms of poetry as echoes or variations of its own insistent beat.

- Brad Leithauser

I cling to the optimistic belief that the haphazard and the hopscotch, the creature that sips among many flowers, may actually come up with something.

- Brad Leithauser

If one were forced to select a single word to exemplify Bishop's peculiar charm and power, it might well be 'No.'

- Brad Leithauser

I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a millimetre a year and the …

- Brad Leithauser