Attention Quote by Barry S. Strauss

Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.

— Mary MacLane

For a thorough understanding of rowing, for the what, the how and the why, the books making up Peter Mallory’s The Sport of Rowing…

— Anita DeFrantz

Once one is beyond a certain level of commitment to the sport, life begins to seem an allegory of rowing rather than rowing an…

— Stefan Kieszling

Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned.

— Robert Adamson

I think it was W.H. Auden who said he was lucky that his first favorite poet was Thomas Hardy, who was a good but…

— David Duchovny

Geoffrey Hill may be the strongest and most original English poet of the second half of our fading century, although his work is by…

— John Hollander

Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain.

— Brad Alan Lewis

I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's…

— Diane Wakoski

The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things…

— Stephen Spender

All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes…

— Charles Caleb Colton

A poet is never one of the people. He is detached, remote, and the life of small-time dances and talk about football would not…

— Patrick Kavanagh

The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled with words.…

— Robert Green Ingersoll