Famous quotes containing the words english and/or poets:
“I framed to the harp
Many an English ditty lovely well.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes,
The poets labouring all their days
To build a perfect beauty in rhyme
Are overthrown by a woman’s gaze....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)