Poets Follies

Famous quotes containing the words poets and/or follies:

“Great works constructed there in nature’s spite
For scholars and for poets after us,
Thoughts long knitted into a single thought,
A dance-like glory that those walls begot.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Some follies are caught, like contagious diseases.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)