Famous quotes containing the words english and/or poets:
“Ive sometimes thought ... that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects but soft with women, and the English are hard with women but soft in all other respects.”
—J.M. (James Matthew)
“There beneath the Roman ruin where the purple flowers grow,
Came that Ave atque Vale of the poets hopeless woe,
Tenderest of Roman poets nineteen hundred years ago,”
—Alfred Tennyson (18091892)