Famous quotes containing the words english and/or poets:
“The first faults are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them.”
—18th-century English proverb.
“More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot understand; indeed, admire that which has no meaning or principle.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)