Famous quotes containing the words english and/or poets:
“The English language is like a broad river on whose bank a few patient anglers are sitting, while, higher up, the stream is being polluted by a string of refuse-barges tipping out their muck.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)
“Pain makes hens and poets cackle.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)