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Poets
Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose Those made not poets, but the poets those.
- By Sir John Denham , on Poets
Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.
- By William Cowper , on Poets
They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their own.
- By William Cowper , on Poets
There is a pleasure in poetic pains, Which only poets know.
- By William Cowper , on Poets
Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared, And ages ere the Mantuan Swan was heard; To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, asked ages more.
- By William Cowper , on Poets
And spare the poet for his subject's sake.
- By William Cowper , on Poets
Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
- By Abraham Cowley , on Poets
I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.
- By Cicero , on Poets
Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.
- By Charles Churchill , on Poets
He koude songes make and well endite.
- By Geoffrey Chaucer , on Poets
