Poets Follies

Famous quotes containing the words poets and/or follies:

“Love is a boy, by poets styled,
Then spare the rod and spoil the child.”
—Samuel Butler (1612–1680)

“Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
You’ve played, and loved, and eat, and drunk your fill:
Walk sober off; before a sprightlier age
Comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage:
Leave such to trifle with more grace and ease,
Whom Folly pleases, and whose follies please.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)