Poets

Famous quotes containing the word poets:

“O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes,
The poets labouring all their days
To build a perfect beauty in rhyme
Are overthrown by a woman’s gaze....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Can you remember? when we thought
the poets taught how to live?”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

“Lately our poets loiter’d in green lanes,
Content to catch the ballads of the plains;”
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)