Poets

Famous quotes containing the word poets:

“He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)

“Lately our poets loiter’d in green lanes,
Content to catch the ballads of the plains;”
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)

“The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)