Poets

Famous quotes containing the word poets:

“Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“We poets in our youth begin in gladness;
But thereof comes in the end despondency and madness.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

“We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage
And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die,
We Poets of the proud old lineage
Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why,”
—James Elroy Flecker (1884–1919)