Quote#Poetry
There have been many most excellent poets that never versified, and…
Quote byPhilip Sidney · 1554–1586
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: An Apology of Poetry, or The Defence of Poesy (1595), Page 87..
English (original)
There have been many most excellent poets that never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.
— Philip Sidney
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