Poets Follies

Famous quotes containing the words poets and/or follies:

“Can you remember? when we thought
the poets taught how to live?”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

“But love is blind, and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit,
For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
To see me thus transformed to a boy.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)