Famous quotes containing the words english and/or poets:
“That Cabot merely landed on the uninhabitable shore of Labrador gave the English no just title to New England, or to the United States generally, any more than to Patagonia.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)