Poet Quotes and aphorisms about lyric Langston Hughes Eugenio Montale Seamus Heaney John Fuller Edward Hirsch James Fenton ,, Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twenti... James Fenton ,, When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Gen... James Fenton ,, What I want, when I write a poem, is no more than this: that it be preserved in some published form... John Drinkwater John Drinkwater