Famous quotes containing the words latin and/or poets:
“They named it Ovation from the Latin ovis [a sheep].”
—Plutarch (46–120)
“You know what? Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no business to be writing, to be a poet unless some philosophic stinker gave him permission.”
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)