Poets

Famous quotes containing the word poets:

“I have heard that hysterical women say
They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow,
Of poets that are always gay,”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

“He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)