| 词汇 | poets are born not made |
| 词源 | poets are born, not made. True, untrue, or partly true, this is an ancient belief, for it is a translation of the Latin Poeta nasci- tur, non fit. In his “To the Memory of . . . Shakespeare” (1623), in which he gave us the immortal lines “Sweet Swan of Avon!” and “He was not of an age but for all time,” Ben Jonson wrote: “For a good poet’s made, as well as born.” |
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