Poets

Famous quotes containing the word poets:

“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)

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

“nor till the poets among us can be “literalists of the imagination”Mabove insolence and triviality and can present
for inspection, “imaginary gardens with real toads in them,” shall we have
it.”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)