Young Poet

Famous quotes containing the words young and/or poet:

“It was my bridal night I remember,
An old man of seventy-three
I lay with my young bride in my arms,
A girl with t.b.”
—Stevie Smith (1902–1971)

“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 (1717–1797)