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“He koude songes make and well endite.”
Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales (prologue, l. 95)
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“Who all in raptures their own works rehearse,
And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.”
Charles Churchill Quotes Source: Independence (l. 95)
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“I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself
super-excellent.
[Lat., Adhue neminem cognovi poetam, qui sibi non optimus
videretur.]”
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) Quotes Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (V, 22)
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“Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit
Of poets triumphs over it.”
Abraham Cowley Quotes Source: On the Praise of Poetry (ode I, l. 13)
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“And spare the poet for his subject's sake.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Charity (last line)
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“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.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Table Talk
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“There is a pleasure in poetic pains,
Which only poets know.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Task (bk. II, l. 285)
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“They best can judge a poet's worth,
Who oft themselves have known
The pangs of a poetic birth
By labours of their own.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: To Dr. Darwin (st. 2)
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“Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name,
But England's Milton equals both in fame.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: To John Milton
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“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.”
Sir John Denham Quotes Source: Cooper's Hill
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