Famous quotes containing the words english and/or poets:
“Six hours for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.”
—18th-century English proverb.
“nor till the poets among us can be “literalists of the imagination”Mabove insolence and triviality and can present
for inspection, “imaginary gardens with real toads in them,” shall we have
it.”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)