Quote#Poetry
Poets lose half the praise they should have got
Quote byEdmund Waller · 1606–1687
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham (1857), Upon Roscommon's Translation of Horace's De Arte Poetica..
English (original)
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
— Edmund Waller
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