Eminent Poet

Famous quotes containing the words eminent and/or poet:

“Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)