Famous quotes containing the words english and/or poem:
“These are not the artificial forests of an English king,—a royal preserve merely. Here prevail no forest laws but those of nature. The aborigines have never been dispossessed, nor nature disforested.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)