Famous quotes containing the words century and/or poetry:
“Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.”
—Homer (c. 8th century B.C.)
“A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)