Famous quotes containing the words english and/or poets:
“The English like eccentrics. They just don’t like them living next door.”
—Julian Clary (b. 1959)
“I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy,
The sleepless soul that perished in his pride;
Of him who walked in glory and in joy
Following his plough, along the mountain side:
By our own spirits are we deified:
We poets in our youth begin in gladness;
But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)