Arts & Sciences
If You Are Not a Poet You May Live
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Arts & Sciences
If you are not a poet you may live
With poets pleasantly. But if you are,
A little piece of counsel let me give . . .
Praise one you speak with . . praise none else . . beware!
Cite this poem
MLA
Landor, Walter Savage. “If You Are Not a Poet You May Live.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/944/.
Chicago
Landor, Walter Savage. “If You Are Not a Poet You May Live.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/944/.
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