Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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