| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 8750 |
| QUOTATION: | Nay, if there’s room for poets in this world
A little overgrown (I think there is),
Their sole work is to represent the age,
Their age, not Charlemagne’s,—this live, throbbing age.
That brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires,
And spends more passion, more heroic heat,
Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms,
Than Roland with his knights. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861), British poet. Aurora Leigh, bk. 5 (1857). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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