“Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known wha...” — Edmund Waller Quote

“Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.”

“Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.”

“How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!”

“Poets have a sense of place. My place was London, and I sang about it.”

“Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.”

“I have never felt inhibited in trying to write as well as the greatest English poets.”