Poets
- James Thomson (poet) (1700–1748), Scottish poet and playwright, author of The Seasons and Rule, Britannia!"
- James Thomson (weaver poet) (1763–1832), Scottish poet
- James Thomson (B.V.) (1834–1882), Scottish poet, author of The City of Dreadful Night
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“Lately our poets loiter’d in green lanes,
Content to catch the ballads of the plains;”
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)
“Great works constructed there in nature’s spite
For scholars and for poets after us,
Thoughts long knitted into a single thought,
A dance-like glory that those walls begot.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it’s horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.”
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