Famous quotes containing the words young and/or poet:
“The young are just as opinionated as the old, but have more exciting things to do than sit around airing their opinions all day.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it weakens the sense, is like a jeweller, who cuts a diamond into a brilliant, and diminishes the weight to make it shine more.”
—Horace Walpole (17171797)
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