Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) English poet
Book I, Canto III, III Unthrift.
The Angel In The House (1854)
“"How divine is utterance!" she said. "As we to the brutes, poets are to us."”
Source: Diana of the Crossways http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4470/4470.txt (1885), Ch. 16.
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