Japanese Poetry - Important Poets (premodern)

Famous quotes containing the words important and/or poets:

“The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such.”
—André Maurois (1885–1967)

“I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy,
The sleepless soul that perished in his pride;
Of him who walked in glory and in joy
Following his plough, along the mountain side:
By our own spirits are we deified:
We poets in our youth begin in gladness;
But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)