Quote#Poetry
The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog;…
Quote byAlgernon Charles Swinburne · 1837–1909
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Under the Microscope (1872), p. 61.
English (original)
The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog; not though in that stage of development he should puff and blow himself till he bursts with windy adulation at the heels of the laureled ox.
— Algernon Charles Swinburne
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