Famous quotes containing the words english and/or poets:
“Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?”
—Alan Jay Lerner (1918–1986)
“There beneath the Roman ruin where the purple flowers grow,
Came that “Ave atque Vale” of the poet’s hopeless woe,
Tenderest of Roman poets nineteen hundred years ago,”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)