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)

“I said, the poets are there
I hear them singing and lying
around their round table
and around me still.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)