Poets

Famous quotes containing the word poets:

“Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Love is a boy, by poets styled,
Then spare the rod and spoil the child.”
—Samuel Butler (1612–1680)

“When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)