Edmund Waller Quote

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


Upon Roscommon's Translation of Horace's De Arte Poetica. - Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham (1857)


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

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

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

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