| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 16352 |
| QUOTATION: | “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. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Dickens Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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