Famous quotes containing the words english and/or poets:
“Death is a shadow that always follows the body.”
—14th-century English proverb.
“Many are poets but without the name,
For what is poesy but to create
From overfeeling good or ill; and aim
At an external life beyond our fate,
And be the new Prometheus of new men.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)