Robert Aris Willmott - Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature,

Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants growing into one flower and sowing itself over the world in shapes of beauty and color, which differ with the soil that receives and the sun that ripens the seed. In Persia, it comes up the rose of Hafiz; in England, the many-blossomed tree of Shakespeare.

- Robert Aris Willmott

topic: Flower, Color, Rose, Offspring, Plants Growing, Fruitfulness, Hafiz, Persia