Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage. Auteur: Charles Dickens Copy Quote More from Charles Dickens “It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.” “For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spok…” “London and Westminster. Even the Cock-lane ghost had been laid only a round doz…” “A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing crea…”