Famous quotes containing the words english and/or poets:
“The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.”
—18th-century English proverb.
“We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage
And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die,
We Poets of the proud old lineage
Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why,”
—James Elroy Flecker (1884–1919)