Famous quotes containing the words century and/or poetry:
“The ignorant are like useless, brackish soil;
They exist and that is all.”
—Tiruvalluvar (c. 5th century A.D.)
“The science of Humboldt is one thing, poetry is another thing. The poet to-day, notwithstanding all the discoveries of science, and the accumulated learning of mankind, enjoys no advantage over Homer.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)