Quotes by Bacon, Francis

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural >>

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see not >>

Money makes a good servant, but a bad master. >>

Quotations about Poetry and Poets

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former c >>

I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down. >>

A poet is born not made. >>

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.

Bacon, Francis