Poets

Famous quotes containing the word poets:

“I have heard that hysterical women say
They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow,
Of poets that are always gay,”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

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

“No wonder poets sometimes have to seem
So much more business-like than business men.
Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)