Polish Poet

Famous quotes containing the words polish and/or poet:

“‘Then I polish all the silver, which a supper-table lacquers;
Then I write the pretty mottoes which you find inside the
crackers’—”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

““A poet is a man speaking to men”:
But I am then a poet, am I not?—”
—John Berryman (1914–1972)