Famous quotes containing the words english and/or poets:
“I framed to the harp
Many an English ditty lovely well.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“nor till the poets among us can be
literalists of
the imagination—above
insolence and triviality and can present
for inspection, ‘imaginary gardens with real toads in them’,
shall we have”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)