“Poetry’s unnat’ral; no man ever talked poetry ‘cept a beadle on boxin’ day, or Warren’s blackin’ or Rowland’s oil, or some o’ them low fellows; never you let yourself down to talk poetry, my boy.”
ATTRIBUTION:
Charles Dickens (1812–1870), British novelist. Tony Weller in The Pickwick Papers, ch. 33, p. 452 (1837).
The elder Weller, commenting on his son’s composition of a valentine.
