Famous quotes containing the words woman and/or poet:
“Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)
“A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it weakens the sense, is like a jeweller, who cuts a diamond into a brilliant, and diminishes the weight to make it shine more.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)