Poets Follies

Famous quotes containing the words poets and/or follies:

    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)

    I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom of the wise.
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)