Famous quotes containing the words english and/or poets:
“The English like eccentrics. They just don’t like them living next door.”
—Julian Clary (b. 1959)
“O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes,
The poets labouring all their days
To build a perfect beauty in rhyme
Are overthrown by a woman’s gaze....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)