Made Quote by Alister E. McGrath

Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.

— Mason Cooley

Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.

— Aulus Gellius

The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.

— Sarah Orne Jewett

Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away.

— Benjamin Franklin

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.

— Robert Lowell

Sunlight 's a thing that needs a window Before it enter a dark room. Windows don't happen." So two old poets, Hunched at their…

— R. S. Thomas

Like all twenty-one-year-old poets, I thought I would be dead by thirty, and Sylvia Plath had not set a helpful example. For a while…

— Margaret Atwood

“The Old Poets Of China Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I…

— Mary Oliver

Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets.

— William Wordsworth

Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]

— Horace

There were so many Pittsburgh poets in my hallway that if, at that instant, a meteorite had come smashing through my roof, there would…

— Michael Chabon

Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural…

— Aberjhani