Famous quotes containing the words english and/or poets:
“Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?”
—Alan Jay Lerner (1918–1986)
“There had been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous—and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.”
—Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938)