Famous quotes containing the words english and/or poets:
“Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?”
—Alan Jay Lerner (1918–1986)
“Truly men hate the truth; they’d liefer
Meet a tiger on the road.
Therefore the poets honey their truth with lying; but religion-
Vendors and political men
Pour from the barrel, new lies on the old,”
—Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)