Poems are not read like novels. There is much pleasure to be had in taking the same fourteen-line sonnet to bed with you and reading it many times over for a week. Savour, taste, enjoy. Poetry is not made to be sucked up like a child's milkshake, it is much better sipped like a precious malt whiskey. Verse is one of our last stands against the instant and the infantile. Even when it is simple and childlike it is to be savoured.
- The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry, pp xxii-xxiii
- The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry, pp xxii-xxiii
