Quotation by

Walter Scott

Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Poetry

Understanding this quote AI Analysis

Walter Scott is saying that learning poetry helps children think more creatively and thoughtfully, while also adding elegance to their understanding of what is wise. He believes that poetry inspires qualities like courage and honor, passing these admirable traits down through generations.

More by this author

All quotes by Walter Scott →

More quotes about Poetry

See all →

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emoti…

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.