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.
“I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order;Mpoetry = the best words in the best order.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)