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Poets tell many lies. Votes: 3

Solon
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God, eldest of Poets. Votes: 3

William Watson
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Poets are born, not paid. Votes: 3

Addison Mizner
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The Poets light but Lamps-Themselves-go out- Votes: 3

Emily Dickinson
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Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them. Votes: 3

Stephane Mallarme
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who can Perswade more Powerfully than Poets? Votes: 3

Margaret Cavendish
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Philosophers, Poets and Fools have similar Consciousness Votes: 3

Amit Gupta
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Poets are band leaders who have failed. Votes: 3

Ayi Kwei Armah
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Poets are far rarer birds than kings. Votes: 3

Ben Jonson
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Poets wish to profit or to please. Votes: 3

Horace
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Poets sing our human music for us. Votes: 3

Carol Ann Duffy
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Poets play with words to keep themselves sane Votes: 3

Eyedea
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. Votes: 3

J. D. Salinger
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Poets are interested mostly in death and commas. Votes: 3

Carolyn Kizer
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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. Votes: 3

Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them. Votes: 3

Friedrich Nietzsche
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. Votes: 3

Samuel Beckett
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Poets do not go mad, but chess players do. Votes: 3

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful.. Votes: 3

Ogden Nash
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Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other. Votes: 3

William Wycherley
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark. Votes: 3

Jorge Luis Borges
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Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization. Votes: 3

Elizabeth Janeway
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Poets, like fighters, both reap the benefits of roadwork. Votes: 3

Cameron Conaway
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Poets find truth by writing about what they love. Votes: 3

Susan Cooper
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Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels. Votes: 3

Allen Ginsberg
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Poets and artists who speak of the mystery are rare. Votes: 3

Joseph Campbell
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Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end. Votes: 3

Rick Yancey
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You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world. Votes: 3

Jackie Kennedy
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Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate. Votes: 3

William Wycherley
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Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well. Votes: 3

Cyril Connolly
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Poets and monks... We're both sort of peripheral to the world. Votes: 3

Kathleen Norris
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Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry. Votes: 3

Anne Stevenson
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand. Votes: 3

Plato
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Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man. Votes: 3

Robert Frost
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Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away! Votes: 3

Phyllis Bottome
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another. Votes: 3

Jules Verne
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Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts. Votes: 3

Archibald MacLeish
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Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results. Votes: 3

Allen Tate
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I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death. Votes: 3

John Keats
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Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words. Votes: 3

Helen Dunmore
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets. Votes: 3

Ezra Pound
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Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets food is love and fame. Votes: 3

Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek. Votes: 3

Edmund Waller
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I did sketch comedy with a troupe at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Votes: 3

Selenis Leyva
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Black Poets should live--not leap From steel bridges, like the white boys do. Votes: 3

Etheridge Knight
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Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else. Votes: 3

Marie Corelli
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Poets are the sense, philosophers­­ the intelligence­­ of humanity. Votes: 3

Samuel Beckett
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Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it. Votes: 3

Abraham Cowley
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Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature. Votes: 3

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves. Votes: 3

Marita Golden
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Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children. Votes: 3

Alphonse Daudet
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart. Votes: 3

Erica Jong
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Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use. Votes: 3

Horace
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Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water. Votes: 3

Robert Frost
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Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels. Votes: 3

William Carlos Williams
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Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently. Votes: 3

Jean Cocteau
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Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers. Votes: 3

Horace
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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive. Votes: 3

Alphonse de Lamartine
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Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse. Votes: 3

John Barton
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Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. Votes: 3

Robert Frost
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Poets are sultans, if they had their will; For every author would his brother kill. Votes: 3

Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery
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Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society. Votes: 3

Tom Schulman
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Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists. Votes: 3

Kenneth Goldsmith
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Poets can tell the truth as they see it. It's the author's story, the author's voice. Votes: 3

Nikki Giovanni
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Our Poets make us laugh at Tragœdy, And with their Comoedies they make us cry. Votes: 3

Theresa Villiers
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Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet. Votes: 3

Etheridge Knight
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All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful. Votes: 3

Wilfred Owen
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Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say. Votes: 3

Lois McMaster Bujold
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Advice to Young Poets Never pretend to be a unicorn by sticking a plunger on your head. Votes: 3

Martin Espada
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Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions. Votes: 3

Oscar Wilde
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We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness. Votes: 3

William Wordsworth
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot. Votes: 3

Edmund Waller
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Poets themselves, tho' liars by profession, always endeavour to give an air of truth to their fictions... Votes: 3

David Hume
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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. Votes: 3

Alexander Pope
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Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings. Votes: 3

Carol Ann Duffy
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Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets. Votes: 3

William Wordsworth
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Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown. Votes: 3

Sharon Olds
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Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one. Votes: 3

Craig Brown
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The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard. Votes: 3

Hafez
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Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker. Votes: 3

Allen Tate
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Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can. Votes: 3

Friedrich Nietzsche
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Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well. Votes: 3

Anne Waldman
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Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot. Votes: 3

Robert Frost
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Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision. Votes: 3

Jim Jarmusch
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions. Votes: 3

J. D. Salinger
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Poets can't worry about popularity since loving life and humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear. Votes: 3

Vanna Bonta
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Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others. Votes: 3

Octavio Paz
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Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line. Votes: 3

Rollo May
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Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss. Votes: 3

Joseph Campbell
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Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love. Votes: 3

Philip James Bailey
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Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of... Votes: 3

Michelangelo
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Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become. Votes: 3

Dan Simmons
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The category "Women Poets" is bizarre and irrelevant. It's a subcategory of Poets, but there is not a "Men Poets" category. Votes: 3

Vanna Bonta
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Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do. Votes: 3

Yusef Komunyakaa
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Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do. Votes: 3

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money. Votes: 3

Robert Penn Warren
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Poets are sitting in my kitchen. Why do these poets lie? Why do children get children and Did you hear what it said? Votes: 3

Anne Sexton
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The first movie that made me cry was Dead Poets Society. That one gets me. O Captain! My Captain! That moment kills me. Votes: 3

David Walton
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The first movie that made me cry was 'Dead Poets Society.' That one gets me. 'O Captain! My Captain!' That moment kills me. Votes: 3

David Walton
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. Votes: 1

T. S. Eliot
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The poets are only the interpreters of the gods. Votes: 1

Socrates
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences. Votes: 1

Walt Whitman
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Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance. Votes: 1

Anne Sexton
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. Votes: 1

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. Votes: 1

Christopher Morley
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I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire. Votes: 1

Charles Olson
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When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue. Votes: 1

Benjamin Franklin
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For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them. Votes: 1

Ice Cube
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Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market. Votes: 1

Robert Frost
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Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world. Votes: 1

Miguel de Cervantes
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Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events. Votes: 1

John Drinkwater
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Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion? Votes: 1

Samuel Richardson
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Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment and a butterfly the next. Votes: 1

Louie Schwartzberg
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Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst. Votes: 1

Pablo Picasso
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Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder. Votes: 1

Thomas Aquinas
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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. Votes: 1

Barack Obama
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The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts. Votes: 1

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the great poets: I read, and I read, and I read. Votes: 1

Mary Oliver
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In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness. Votes: 1

Norman O. Brown
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I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there. Votes: 1

David Knopfler
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. Votes: 1

Socrates
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Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth. Votes: 1

Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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I don't see my artist friends as any more neurotic or addiction-prone than the others. The roommates I have had who were into triathlons or environmentalism were just as crazy as the poets, just as prone to tears over gardening or air conditioners, just as ready to kite a cheque or binge on cookie dough. Votes: 1

Russell Smith
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Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and Croats, and living side by side. And then this medieval siege, and it was a medieval siege, came, and the Bosnian Serbs were on the hills lobbing in rockets and grenades and mortars. Votes: 1

Janine di Giovanni
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Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology. Votes: 1

Neil deGrasse Tyson
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We must listen to poets. Votes: 0

Gaston Bachelard
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They are poets of gesture. Votes: 0

George Balanchine
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There were poets before Homer. Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Academia is a graveyard of poets. Votes: 0

Kathleen Raine
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Good poets borrow, great poets steal Votes: 0

T. S. Eliot
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Bad poets imitate, good poets steal. Votes: 0

T. S. Eliot
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Science is not addressed to poets. Votes: 0

George Henry Lewes
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Who, except the poets, reads poetry? Votes: 0

Babette Deutsch
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Pain makes hens and poets cackle. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche
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All men are poets at heart. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Rude poets of the tavern hearth, Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Oh, what company good poets are! Votes: 0

Jose Marti
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I learn life from the poets. Votes: 0

Madame de Stael
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SO MANY PEOPLE, SO FEW POETS Votes: 0

Amy King
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Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley
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Poetics is a science for stammering poets. Votes: 0

Shirley Geok-lin Lim
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Keelhaul the poets in the vestry chairs. Votes: 0

Karl Shapiro
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Painters and poets have liberty to lie. Votes: 0

Robert Burns
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There are poets and there are grownups. Votes: 0

Jean Cocteau
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Frost is the most sophisticated of poets. Votes: 0

Peter Davison
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And mighty poets in their misery dead. Votes: 0

William Wordsworth
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We are born poets. we become orators. Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero
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I think all the poets and artists Votes: 0

Maximilian Schell
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Them lady poets must not marry, pal. Votes: 0

John Berryman
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You shouldn't let poets lie to you. Votes: 0

Bjork
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Time spent with poets is never wasted. Votes: 0

May Sarton
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The poets did not win; the philosophers surrendered. Votes: 0

Umberto Eco
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Pilgrims are poets who create by taking journeys. Votes: 0

H. Richard Niebuhr
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Women make us poets, children make us philosophers. Votes: 0

Malcolm de Chazal
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If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets. Votes: 0

Peter Davison
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Novelists want to flood, poets want to distill. Votes: 0

J. D. McClatchy
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Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. Votes: 0

Nick Flynn
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poets are born knowing the language of angels Votes: 0

Madeleine L'Engle
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Political parties are like poets, born, not made. Votes: 0

Henry Ford
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Ocean waters..oceans deep..Serious poets never sleep. Votes: 0

Sally-Ann Roberts
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The engineers of the future will be poets. Votes: 0

Terence McKenna
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We [poets] set men free from their desires Votes: 0

Rabindranath Tagore
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I knew that poets seemed to be miserable. Votes: 0

Billy Collins
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For poets the wages of sin are poverty. Votes: 0

William Logan
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Hills tell old stories. Cliffs are poets with harps Votes: 0

George MacKay
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Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely? Votes: 0

Honore de Balzac
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Lesbians are the poets of the humanity of women ... Votes: 0

Nicole Brossard
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We photographers are poets in the language of symbols. Votes: 0

Jan Phillips
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...the Moon, the enemy of poets...("Merchant's Two Sons") Votes: 0

Giambattista Basile
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I warmly recommend to you the films of poets. Votes: 0

Francois Truffaut
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Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff. Votes: 0

Bhagat Singh
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All great poets have been men of great knowledge. Votes: 0

William C. Bryant
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...(hot, opalescent, thick tears that poets and lovers shed)... Votes: 0

Vladimir Nabokov
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The New York School poets are my godfathers creatively. Votes: 0

Jim Jarmusch
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Dan Gerber is one of our finest living poets. Votes: 0

Annie Dillard
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There are very few great poets in the world. Votes: 0

Tahar Ben Jelloun
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As we to the brutes, poets are to us. Votes: 0

George Meredith
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Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever. Votes: 0

Stan Brakhage
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My message is not wholly understood; only poets understand it. Votes: 0

Miguel Serrano
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Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance. Votes: 0

Jean Anouilh
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American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did. Votes: 0

Diane Wakoski
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All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets. Votes: 0

George Santayana
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Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde
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poets. have the toughest jobin the universe-of turning silenceinto eloquence. Votes: 0

Sanober Khan
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Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything. Votes: 0

Horace
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In this most Christian of worlds all poets are Jews. Votes: 0

Marina Tsvetaeva
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And they were all, when their souls grew warm, poets. Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury
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Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets. Votes: 0

Charles Baudelaire
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We painters use the same license as poets and madmen. Votes: 0

Paolo Veronese
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I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way. Votes: 0

Jim Jarmusch
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Ah, if I were dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs! Votes: 0

Gregory Corso
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He is half of my soul,as the poets say. Votes: 0

Madeline Miller The song of achilles
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Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink. Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If you want poets in space, you'll have to wait. Votes: 0

Buzz Aldrin
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As the poets say, stories are truth told through lies. Votes: 0

Jessica Khoury
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Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest. Votes: 0

Mary MacLane
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All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets. Votes: 0

Tom Hodgkinson
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I'm an amalgam of the 19th-century romantics and the beat poets. Votes: 0

Roy Harper
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Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot Votes: 0

Muriel Rukeyser
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For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays. Votes: 0

Nicholson Baker
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Good-bye to the lies of the poets. [Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.] Votes: 0

Ovid
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse. Votes: 0

Jorge Luis Borges
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Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders. Votes: 0

Joyce Cary
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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. Votes: 0

Guillaume Apollinaire
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets. Votes: 0

Aristophanes
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Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets. Votes: 0

George Farquhar
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whether they write poems or don't write poems, poets are best. Votes: 0

Randall Jarrell
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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know. Votes: 0

William Cowper
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Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets. Votes: 0

Thomas Carlyle
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Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones. Votes: 0

Dana Gioia
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Amy Winehouse and Paul Weller are examples of poets, I think. Votes: 0

Jools Holland
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Maybe the poets are right. Maybe love is the only answer. Votes: 0

Woody Allen
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies. Votes: 0

Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets. Votes: 0

Bernie Taupin
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We must all teach ourselves to be fine, to be poets. Votes: 0

Charles Webster Hawthorne
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There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work. Votes: 0

Helen Vendler
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I think most poets are natural witnesses and were curious about everything. Votes: 0

Allison Hedge Coke
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The real war poets are always war poets, peace or any time. Votes: 0

Randall Jarrell
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The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words. Votes: 0

Octavio Paz
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We're football people, not poets, but obviously I'm disappointed with the result. Votes: 0

Mick McCarthy
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The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians ... Votes: 0

Barbara Tuchman
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Nations conquered and true love prevails, all encompassed in a poets tale. Votes: 0

R.J. Craddock
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God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few. Votes: 0

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
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With respect to ingenious subconsciousness, I think, philosophers might well rival poets. Votes: 0

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems. Votes: 0

Robert Morgan
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I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers. Votes: 0

Francine Prose
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Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. Votes: 0

George Orwell
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I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal. Votes: 0

E. M. Forster
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being. Votes: 0

Martin Heidegger
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It's just that very few poets disturb the peace to any degree. Votes: 0

Gerald Stern
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Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men. Votes: 0

Horace
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Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance. Votes: 0

Jean Anouilh
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Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany. Votes: 0

Christian Wiman
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Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation. Votes: 0

Kenneth Koch
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Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. Votes: 0

Aristotle
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Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live? Votes: 0

Adrienne Rich
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They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win. Votes: 0

Howard Zinn
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In the streets the children screamed. The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed Votes: 0

Don McLean
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love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers. Votes: 0

George Santayana
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Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets. Votes: 0

George Eliot
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Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers. Votes: 0

Dan Simmons
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The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems. Votes: 0

Antonio Machado
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The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets. Votes: 0

Edwin Percy Whipple
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The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness. Votes: 0

Russell Simmons
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True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age. Votes: 0

Sophie Swetchine
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Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets? Votes: 0

Eugene H. Peterson
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All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson. Votes: 0

Leonard Cohen
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All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them. Votes: 0

Umberto Eco
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Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds. Votes: 0

Amiri Baraka
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Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are. Votes: 0

Gwendolyn Brooks
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. Votes: 0

Zelda Fitzgerald
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While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep. Votes: 0

Alexander Pope
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Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets. Votes: 0

Kenneth Koch
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I get a huge energy transfusion from listening to poets read their works. Votes: 0

Grace Cavalieri
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Where politics is concerned, I think poets have to be pragmatists, philosophical pragmatists. Votes: 0

Robert Hass
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The poets continually and sometimes wilfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer. Votes: 0

Stephen King
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For poets that have had my luck, Seldom write when they can kiss. Votes: 0

Alex Comfort
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Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets. Votes: 0

Federico Fellini
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Kiss. n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss". Votes: 0

Ambrose Bierce
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I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing. Votes: 0

E. B. White
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The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Men like to think well of themselves, and poets help them do it. Votes: 0

Sheri S. Tepper
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The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man. Votes: 0

Sarah Orne Jewett
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Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops. Votes: 0

James Fenton
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Money is everywhere, but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets. Votes: 0

Federico Fellini
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It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls. Votes: 0

Bohumil Hrabal
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We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings. Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge. Votes: 0

Warren G. Bennis
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Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate, For morning dreams, as poets tell, are true. Votes: 0

Michael Bruce
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For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light. Votes: 0

Philip James Bailey
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Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing. Votes: 0

Alexander Pope
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The poets needed to learn to pay greater attention to character and to narrative. Votes: 0

Edward Hirsch
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Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty. Votes: 0

Dennis Potter
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Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers. Votes: 0

Horace
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God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us. Votes: 0

Peter Altenberg
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Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate. Votes: 0

Horace
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Sometimes writers (poets) expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig. Votes: 0

Richelle E. Goodrich
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The poets get a quizzical ahem. They reflect time, I am the very ticking. Votes: 0

Roy Fuller
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I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do. Votes: 0

Victoria Chang
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We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche
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I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do. Votes: 0

Isaac Rosenberg
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I secretly assumed, as poets do, The duty on me to define the moon. Votes: 0

Jorge Luis Borges
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Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet. Votes: 0

Mary Ruefle
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false? Votes: 0

H. P. Lovecraft
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Rare-book people have this in common with poets: they too are born, not made. Votes: 0

E. Millicent Sowerby
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Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is the spirit of the poets that gives the soldiers strength to fight. Votes: 0

Casting Crowns
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Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up? Votes: 0

Gary D. Schmidt
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I cant look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do. Votes: 0

Isaac Rosenberg
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When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring, Votes: 0

Alister E. McGrath
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Where the most beautiful wild flowers grow, there mans spirit is fed and poets grow. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau
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Only the poets can hold the country together, and I wanted to hold Germany together. Votes: 0

Werner Herzog
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We must always remember, however,' said Psmith gravely, 'that poets are also God's creatures. Votes: 0

P. G. Wodehouse
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Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets. Votes: 0

Peter S. Beagle
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I'm obviously not orthodox, I don't know how many real poets have ever been orthodox. Votes: 0

R. S. Thomas
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People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists. Votes: 0

Russell Simmons
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I'm from Chicago, so the Chicago working-class poets still mean a great deal to me. Votes: 0

Sandra Cisneros
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I have to submit to much in order to pacify the touchy tribe of poets. Votes: 0

Horace
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As poets, our lamentations are glorious, filled with the virtues angles would learn to envy. Votes: 0

Masiela Lusha
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Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk. Votes: 0

Lord Dunsany
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The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent. Votes: 0

Barbara Brown Taylor
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The BFI exists to celebrate all poets of world cinema, of the past and present. Votes: 0

Anthony Minghella
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In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves. Votes: 0

Kate Braverman
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. Votes: 0

Aristotle
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Language may die at the hands of the schoolman: it is regenerated by the poets Votes: 0

Emmanuel Mounier
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The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own. Votes: 0

Barbara Holland
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In America they make too much fuss of poets; in London they make too little. Votes: 0

Caitlin Thomas
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Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets. Votes: 0

Dudley Moore
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About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives. Votes: 0

Margaret Atwood
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My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection. Votes: 0

Henry Rollins
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O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung. Votes: 0

Jean Ingelow
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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. Votes: 0

T. S. Eliot
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Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors. Votes: 0

James Broughton
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The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets. Votes: 0

Plato
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America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer. Votes: 0

Rebecca Harding Davis
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Treat your audience like poets and geniuses and they’ll have the chance to become them. Votes: 0

Del Close
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I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations. Votes: 0

Simone Muench
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I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution. Votes: 0

E. L. Doctorow
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Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books. Votes: 0

Joseph Joubert
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It's hard to put into words. Gorillas are not complainers. We're dreamers, poets, philosophers, nap takers. Votes: 0

Katherine Applegate
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I really like accompanying. I like working with vocalists, I've worked with a lot of poets. Votes: 0

Z'EV
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Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain. Votes: 0

Charles Caleb Colton
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I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality. Votes: 0

Tom Verlaine
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There have always been huge musicians and poets in Uruguay, but Uruguay is a well-kept secret. Votes: 0

Steven Sater
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We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians. Votes: 0

Khalil Gibran
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I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe. Votes: 0

Jack Prelutsky
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Don't poets know it Better than others? God can't be always everywhere: and, so, Invented Mothers Votes: 0

Edwin Arnold
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Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong. Votes: 0

Marilyn Nelson
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All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual. Votes: 0

Helen Vendler
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Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians. Votes: 0

Ameen Rihani
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Certainly the modern poets I cherish most are disturbing spirits; they do not come to coo. Votes: 0

Stanley Kunitz
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If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them. Votes: 0

George Santayana
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I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work. Votes: 0

Joy Harjo
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We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. Votes: 0

John Fowles
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Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart. Votes: 0

Guy Gavriel Kay
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It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His. Votes: 0

Socrates
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Because we are all poets or babies in the middle of the night, struggling with being. Votes: 0

Martin Amis
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For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings? Votes: 0

Sir John Davies
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Love thou, and if thy love be deep as mine, Thou wilt not laugh at poets. Votes: 0

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom. Votes: 0

Plato
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The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death. Votes: 0

Edmund Spenser
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It is the gift of all poets to find the commonplace astonishing, and the astonishing quite natural. Votes: 0

Margery Sharp
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Most poets' revisions are disastrous. They buckle and dent what was originally forged at a red-hot heat. Votes: 0

Michael Longley
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I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind. Votes: 0

Julian Jaynes
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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians. Votes: 0

Muhammad Iqbal
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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help. Votes: 0

Carl Sandburg
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We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche
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I was able to read poets that were - allowed me to be humorous without being silly. Votes: 0

Billy Collins
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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities. Votes: 0

Adam Gopnik
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All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets. Votes: 0

Wilferd Peterson
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I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets, Votes: 0

PJ Harvey
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In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets. Votes: 0

Jonas Mekas
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I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets. Votes: 0

P. J. Harvey
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The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death. Votes: 0

Edmund Spenser
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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them. Votes: 0

Thomas Hardy
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I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets. Votes: 0

Marilyn Hacker
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Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences? Votes: 0

Walter Scott
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Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed! Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche
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People should like poetry the way a child likes snow, and they would if poets wrote it. Votes: 0

Wallace Stevens
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Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam. Votes: 0

Conor Oberst
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Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close. Votes: 0

Stephen King
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It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile. Votes: 0

Peter Bichsel
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Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away. Votes: 0

Benjamin Franklin
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He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps. Votes: 0

Tom Stoppard
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The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it. Votes: 0

Jason Silva
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Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent. Votes: 0

Paul Muldoon
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I love men. I've always been drawn to poets, artists, and madmen. Sometimes all three in one Votes: 0

Jessica Lange
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Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege. Votes: 0

Keith Crown
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God thinks in the geniusses, he dreams in the poets and slumbers in the rest of humanity. Votes: 0

Peter Altenberg
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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word. Votes: 0

Wole Soyinka
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There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier. Votes: 0

Honore de Balzac
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Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.] Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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the poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be... Votes: 0

Bruce Springsteen
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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time. Votes: 0

Virginia Woolf
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This day's nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets. Votes: 0

Adam Zagajewski
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In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics. Votes: 0

Thomas B. Macaulay
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At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age. Votes: 0

Marguerite Young
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I'm all in favor of poets telling about the process as much as they can. And many do. Votes: 0

Pattiann Rogers
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Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last. Votes: 0

Alexander Pope
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I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are--the real boundaries. Votes: 0

Katy Lederer
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Once, I was a poet, and, like all poets, I spent too long in the Kingdom of Dreams. Votes: 0

Neil Gaiman
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The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau
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Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley
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Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves. Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have else they will never have better. Votes: 0

Harriet Monroe
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Living in a state of psychic unrest, in a Borderland, is what makes poets write and artists create. Votes: 0

Gloria E. Anzaldúa
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I am not afraid to die because I know heaven is a place of artists, musicians and poets Votes: 0

rassool jibraeel snyman
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Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness. Votes: 0

James Broughton
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There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets. Votes: 0

Rita Dove
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Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi
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In my opinion, poets talk through the symptoms of disease. These symptoms of disease are predictions, screams, and songs. Votes: 0

Kim Hyesoon
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We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities. Votes: 0

Margaret J. Wheatley
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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Votes: 0

Antonin Artaud
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There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends. Votes: 0

Adrian Mitchell
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There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics. Votes: 0

Eugene McCarthy
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I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets Votes: 0

Heraclitus
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Time cannot children,poets,lovers tell- measure imagine,mystery,a kiss -not though mankind would rather know than feel Votes: 0

e. e. cummings
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My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me. Votes: 0

Luc Ferrari
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Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public. Votes: 0

George Santayana
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At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde
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The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters Votes: 0

Thomas Cahill
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Virgil, above all poets, had a stock which I may call almost inexhaustible, of figurative, elegant, and sounding words. Votes: 0

John Dryden
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There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden.Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable. Votes: 0

Toba Beta
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I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets. Votes: 0

Heraclitus
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The real giants have always been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas. Votes: 0

William Bernbach
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One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another. Votes: 0

Philip Larkin
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When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley
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I don't write very much about penises. More than some poets but not perhaps as much as I should. Votes: 0

Rachel Zucker
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Long live the car crash hearts Cry on the couch all the poets come to life Fix me in 45 Votes: 0

Pete Wentz
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I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers. Votes: 0

Ralph Ellison
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Many poets...write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia. Votes: 0

Randall Jarrell
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Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places. Votes: 0

Anne Lamott
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She knows more of love than the poets can say, and her eyes offer something that won't go away. Votes: 0

Harry Chapin
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Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact. Votes: 0

Henry Rollins
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Yet that man is happy and poets sing of him who conquers with hand and swift foot and strength. Votes: 0

Pindar
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And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist. Votes: 0

Carl Sandburg
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Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad. Votes: 0

Remy de Gourmont
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him. Votes: 0

John Dryden
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I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. Votes: 0

Robert Wyatt
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I believe philosophy must go to school with the poets; it's not either/or, it's not over or against. Votes: 0

Cornel West
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And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Bishop
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Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge. Votes: 0

John B. S. Haldane
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People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way. Votes: 0

Charles Bukowski
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Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. Votes: 0

Robert Wyatt
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Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets. Votes: 0

Umberto Eco
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For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo. Votes: 0

Cornel West
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A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. Votes: 0

Robert Graves
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All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise. Votes: 0

Charles Caleb Colton
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A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde
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I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university. Votes: 0

Adrienne Rich
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I say, doctors are the profiteers of death and unclaimed cadavers that were once inhabited by homeless and wondering poets! Votes: 0

Rawi Hage
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As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer. Votes: 0

Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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The poets are almost always wrong about the facts. That's because they're not interested in the facts, only the truth. Votes: 0

William Faulkner
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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings. Votes: 0

Wislawa Szymborska
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Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire. Votes: 0

Jewel
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My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice. Votes: 0

John Burnside
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I said, the poets are there I hear them singing and lying around their round table and around me still. Votes: 0

Anne Sexton
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If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency, Votes: 0

Eugene McCarthy
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Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. Votes: 0

Ernest Hemingway
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We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream , and we won't let this world die without a fight. Votes: 0

Albert Camus
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Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time. Votes: 0

Aulus Gellius
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When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever. Votes: 0

Ben Harper
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.. but all of a sudden they’re poets, right, like that’s all it takes — being in love. Votes: 0

David Sedaris
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We're all polyester poets and pickers of a kind, with far too many questions for the answers in our minds. Votes: 0

John Anderson
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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel. Votes: 0

Aldo Leopold
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If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful. Votes: 0

James Russell Lowell
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets. Votes: 0

Erica Jong
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The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair. Votes: 0

Francois Mauriac
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When I hear Khmer poets, when they recite their poems, I know what they're talking about, I get it right away. Votes: 0

Chath Piersath
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A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi
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... the natural world is the old river that runs through everything, and I think poets will forever fish along its shores. Votes: 0

Mary Oliver
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Them lady poets must not marry, pal It is a true error to marry with poets / or to be by them. Votes: 0

John Berryman
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The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old. Votes: 0

Christopher Morley
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Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that. Votes: 0

Robert Morgan
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Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned. Votes: 0

Robert Adamson
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And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art. Votes: 0

John B. S. Haldane
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Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from strophe to strophe, write the anthem of the feminine body? Votes: 0

Roland Barthes
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The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage. Votes: 0

Plato
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I have heard that hysterical women say They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, Of poets that are always gay Votes: 0

William Butler Yeats
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There are three things in the world that he held in the smallest esteem - slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups. Votes: 0

P. G. Wodehouse
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To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century. Votes: 0

Terence McKenna
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The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau
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but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry. Votes: 0

Charles Bukowski
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I think she must have lived where all the sad poets live, in that secret place where everything hurts all the time. Votes: 0

Ross Thomas
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As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum. Votes: 0

Jean Giraudoux
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In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis. Votes: 0

Robby Krieger
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Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age. Votes: 0

Dave Beard
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Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did. Votes: 0

Robert Lowell
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When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble. Votes: 0

John Crowe Ransom
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When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers. Votes: 0

Peter Coyote
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All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal. Votes: 0

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it. Votes: 0

John Cusack
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I used to think all poets were Byronic Mad, bad and dangerous to know. And then I met a few. See Lamb 486:25. Votes: 0

Wendy Cope
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With "poets dead and gone" as Keats says in "Mermaid Tavern" they are alive and talking to us and us to them. Votes: 0

Gregory Orr
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You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for. Votes: 0

Martial
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Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar? Votes: 0

Khalil Gibran
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As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception. Votes: 0

Grace Cavalieri
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There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If we treat each other as if we are geniuses, poets and artists, we have a better chance of becoming that on stage. Votes: 0

Del Close
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I read a lot. I liked a tremendous number of poets and writers. The person whose work I liked the most was Joyce. Votes: 0

Grace Paley
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Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame. Votes: 0

James Russell Lowell
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I thought originally when I was in school and I wanted to be a poet, I knew that poets seemed to be miserable. Votes: 0

Billy Collins
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Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests. Votes: 0

Jose Marti
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The thing I like about the band [Dead Child] is that there's no pretense. We aren't even trying to be artists or poets. Votes: 0

David Pajo
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I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets. Votes: 0

James Laughlin
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Take [Stéphane] Mallarme. I hold him to be the greatest of French poets, and I have taken some time to understand him ! Votes: 0

Jean-Paul Sartre
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Louise Gluck, C.K. Williams, Thomas Lux. A lot of the poets that I like are the ones that influenced me as a writer. Votes: 0

Stephen Dobyns
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The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of any mountain. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau
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The artist looks for a subject. You know, a lot of new poets don't seem to have a subject. I don't totally understand that. Votes: 0

Gerald Stern
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I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.' Votes: 0

Felix Dennis
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It sounds old-fashioned to say, but we have some kind of purpose for being here, not poets or writers, but all of us humans. Votes: 0

Pattiann Rogers
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Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top. Votes: 0

William Butler Yeats
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To me the poets are closer than I am to the idea of voice, to a sort of primeval song that we all participate in. Votes: 0

Francesco Clemente
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Do poets have any insight into what's the right ratio? I doubt it, but I think that they can be awake to what the ends are. Votes: 0

Robert Hass
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I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say. Votes: 0

Daphne du Maurier
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All men owe honor to the poets - honor and awe; for they are dearest to the Muse who puts upon their lips the ways of life. Votes: 0

Homer
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Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast.

Archibald MacLeish
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The record of poetry in the 20th century isn't all that great anyway. Most of the poets who weren't fascists were Stalinists.

Robert Hass
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Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

Oscar Wilde
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I think that as long as you have other poets before you and that you can learn from them, then it's always open ended for you.

Edward Hirsch
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There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it.

Daniel Radcliffe
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Many of the poets I most admire have a way of embodying their peculiar obsessions via landscape that can sometimes seem magical.

Anna Journey
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Drew Dellinger is one of the most creative, courageous and prophetic poets of his generation. I love his spirit. Don't miss him!

Cornel West
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And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?

Michel de Montaigne
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How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.

Camille Paglia
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Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time, Tiering the same dull webs of discontent, Clipping the same sad alnage of the years.

Edwin Arlington Robinson
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We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.

Henry Miller
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Freedom needs all her poets; it is they Who give her aspirations wings, And to the wiser law of music sway Her wild imaginings.

James Russell Lowell
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Arthur Rimbaud was a disreputable, mean, ruthless, perverse, hateful wretch. He was also one of the greatest poets who ever lived.

Raymond Sokolov
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There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again.

Edward Hirsch
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The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.

Ellen Forney
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Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?

George Crabbe
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Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.

John Lancaster Spalding
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Unjustly poets we asperse: Truth shines the brighter clad in verse, And all the fictions they pursue Do but insinuate what is true.

Jonathan Swift
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Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write.

Russell Simmons
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I definitely have favorite books by favorite poets, but poets' books also vary. I could like some books, but not like another book.

Victoria Chang
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[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets...

William Jones
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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

Gaston Bachelard
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Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers.

Henry R. Luce
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Say, Britain, could you ever boast, Three poets in an age at most? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays in fifty years.

Jonathan Swift
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What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

Plato
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Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE's wit. The men who lived with him became Poets, for the air was fame.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

Randall Jarrell
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They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

Tom Glazer
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Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else.

Augustus William Hare
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One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it all is hard to tell.

Marguerite Yourcenar
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In the end, time is the best ally of poets. It clarifies their works and makes them accessible to an ever widening circle of readers.

Mieczyslaw Jastrun
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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as an equal, or as a friend.

Stephen Burt
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My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands.

Bob Dylan
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Some people are suspicious of others who have more than one talent. I've had poets tell me to my face that an actress can't be a poet.

Grace Zabriskie
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There is no peace to be taken With poets who are young, For they worry about the wars to be fought and the songs that must be sung.

Joyce Kilmer
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Mind and body are not to be taken lightly. Their connection is intimate and mysterious, and better mapped by poets than pornographers.

Shana Alexander
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Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form.

Shirin Neshat
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I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don't pay attention 'cause it probably has floated into somebody else's head.

Gwendolyn Brooks
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Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets.

Nicholas Sparks
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In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but as poetizing I.

Gaston Bachelard
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If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

John F. Kennedy
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Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.

K.J. Parker
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Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.

Robert Frost
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I'm afraid I take ... this rather clinical view of love: it's saving you from madness. I'm not so enthusiastic as other poets have been.

William Empson
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OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets.

Ambrose Bierce
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The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of their times.

Clarence Day
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We called the album 'Amarantine' to mean everlasting. Poets use the word to describe an everlasting flower and I loved the image of that.

Enya
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Listen to these young poets and you'll discover the voice of the present and hear the voice of the future before the future is even here.

Philip Levine
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The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.

Reginald Horace Blyth
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...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you, is a cold bed.

Stanley Kunitz
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Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.

Amy Lowell
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Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.

James Geary
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Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so limited to me.

Martha Ronk
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If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit, their clarity does not help.

Randall Jarrell
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Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life.

David McCullough
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There are two classes of men called poets. The one cultivates life, the other art,... one satisfies hunger, the other gratifies the palate.

Henry David Thoreau
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[The poets' role is that of] capturing on their instruments the secret stir of life in the air and giving it voice in the music of prophecy

Rabindranath Tagore
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I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl London gave.

Edward Hirsch
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I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.

George Eliot
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Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists, poets, playwrights.

Manning Marable
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The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare.

Samuel Johnson
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All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'

Sonia Sanchez
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Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

Lascelles Abercrombie
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We stalk the truth as poets, sensualists, a duality, limited insanity. We labor in our muse, carving alphabets of experience into our hearts.

Masiela Lusha
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The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods.

Paul Lafargue
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Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets.

Democritus
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A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions to strangers and aliens.

George Edward Woodberry
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I am losing my Soviet citizenship, I do not cease to be a Russian poet. I believe that I will return. Poets always return in flesh or on paper.

Joseph Brodsky
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There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.

Philip Sidney
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RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.

Ambrose Bierce
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Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.

Gerald Brenan
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The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.

Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles.

Socrates
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Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rd-world black, lesbian, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist.

Edward Abbey
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Everyone wants to be open and inclusive, but nobody wants to pay for it. It's the biggest roadblock to translating living writers, especially poets.

Andre Naffis-Sahely
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Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings "” stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.

Greg Bear
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Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy his similes.

Henry David Thoreau
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Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others in their turn this indulgence.

Horace
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I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.

Pat Conroy
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Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets; and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,-under-makers.

Philip James Bailey
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A poet is seldom hard up for advice. The worst part of it all is that sometimes the advice is coming from other poets, and they ought to know better.

Richard Hugo
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The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

Sigmund Freud
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The chances are that, in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor, simply because major poets write a lot.

W. H. Auden
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The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that really they were as uncertain as I was.

Helen Dunmore
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Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts.

Janet Malcolm
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Because poets feel what we're afraid to feel, venture where we're reluctant to go, we learn from their journeys without taking the same dramatic risks.

Diane Ackerman
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[Kenneth Koch] taught us to be playful, to be very appreciative of other poets, to appreciate all forms of expression. He taught us to be experimental.

Jim Jarmusch
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It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us, too--individuals whose canvas is our lives.

Sue Halpern
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Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme.

C. S. Lewis
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But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.

Christopher Dawson
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Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.

John Dryden
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SOME YEARS, like some poets,and politicians and some lovely women, are singled out for fame far beyond the common lot, and 1929 was clearly such a year.

John Kenneth Galbraith
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One of the most intuitive nature writers of our recently past century, Peter Matthiessen, lends a poets voice to the desperate effort to save the tiger.

Ron Franscell
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The age-old faith of lovers and poets in the power of love, stronger than death, that Finis vitae sed non amoris , is a lie, useless and not even funny.

Stanislaw Lem
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We will certainly see teachers, journalists, artists and poets in space. Whatever it takes to the be the best is what it will take to get you into space.

Gene Cernan
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If you rank me with the lyric poets, my exalted head shall strike the stars. [Lat., Quod si me lyricis vatibus inseris, Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]

Horace
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Just as we don't spend a lot of time worrying about how all those poets out there are going to monetize their poetry, the same is true for most bloggers.

Seth Godin
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I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.

Mark Twain
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Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
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A stress on the system and I think a painful thing for many young poets who are looking to find a life in poetry that they're not going to be able to find.

Edward Hirsch
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Our poets have sung of wine, the product of a foreign plant which commonly they never saw, as if our own plants had no juice in them more than the singers.

Henry David Thoreau
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In Latin America in general, and Cuba in particular, poets have been the inspiration behind struggles for independence, struggles for freedom of all sorts.

Margarita Engle
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Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

George Bernard Shaw
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what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about

Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Each of us as poets, as decent suffering human beings, has to find a way to run our lives that is compassionate toward one another and toward our environment.

Sam Hamill
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I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and other boring things, but I am quite decided.

Sue Townsend
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Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae.]

Horace
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Hunter S. Thompson and I are old friends, but what we do is so different. There are surface similarities that really have to do with us being frustrated poets.

P. J. O'Rourke
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There's poetry in the world. Poetry doesn't belong just to the poets. You know, you can look at the most premeditated, cold blooded movie and find poetry in it.

Francesco Clemente
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Poets should be law-givers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, and the day's work.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Next, suddenly, lightning suddenly, while I am still a child, a branch is lopped from my being, and a portion of my childhood ends forever. I see what poets are.

Hal Porter
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How something important happens is the business of historians and newspapers, the effect it has is the business of philosophers and writers and especially poets.

Karl Shapiro
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Over many years so many poets have touched my imagination and opened paths for me - it hardly makes sense to list them. I have always read a great deal of poetry.

Adrienne Rich
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To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what others only dare to think, makes men martyrs or reformers.

Elizabeth Charles
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"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.

Horace
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Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose Those made not poets, but the poets those.

John Denham
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No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest and slaughter.

Alice Corbin Henderson
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I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter, and you can find things.

Carol Ann Duffy
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Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians-they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a farmer, a plumber, a careworker.

Charles de Lint
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making final judgements about poets, cities or regions on the basis of an anthology is always dangerous: anthologies are mirages created, finally, by their editors.

Margaret Atwood
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Our earliest poets were shamans. Today, as in the earliest times, true shamans are poets of consciousness who know the power of song and story to teach and to heal.

Robert Moss
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We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these poets bring us fire and light.

Harold Bloom
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I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the true industry for poets. It is the only trade I have learned.

Henry David Thoreau
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I'm trying to stay open to the idea that the Internet is not the evil foe of publishing but the handmaiden that will turn out to be a blessing for poets and writers.

Joan Larkin
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Trust me no tortures which the poets feign Can match the fierce unutterable pain He feels, who night and day devoid of rest Carries his own accuser in his breast.

Juvenal
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Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea They thought great thoughts about liberty Poets wrote down words that did fit Writers wrote books Thinkers thought about it.

Van Morrison
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For me, poetry is a way of thinking, and like many poets, I'm driven by the idea of trying to find the impossible, perfect words: the words that will hold my subject.

James Arthur
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Nine-tenths of English poetic literature is the result either of vulgar careerism or of a poet trying to keep his hand in. Most poets are dead by their late twenties.

Robert Graves
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To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.

Wallace Stevens
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The problem with describing poets as legislators is that at that level of politics - politics as political invention - poets have no special skills and are not apt to.

Robert Hass
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Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical.

Fidel Castro
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New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life.

Samuel Johnson
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Besides the Autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days, A little this side of the snow, And that side of the Haze..., Grant me, Oh Lord, a sunny mind- Thy windy will to bear!

Emily Dickinson
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poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us.

Vernon Lee
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I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.

Alex Haley
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Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?

Susanna Kaysen
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A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through to the big time and become failed novelists.

Gary Reilly
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The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride and worldly honor.

John Dryden
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The birds, the poets of the animal creation - what though they never get beyond the lyrical! - awoke to utter their own joy, and awake like joy in others of God's children.

George MacDonald
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The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear witness. To despair. And desperate lives.

Jean-Claude Izzo
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When we first meet what we love, we could become poets for our longing. When we are removed from what we love, we become singers of grief and weavers of elegant description.

Martin Prechtel
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And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.

Robert Louis Stevenson
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I kind of think that artists throughout history, poets throughout history have been criticized for sharing what's on people's minds and I don't think it's any different now.

Russell Simmons
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I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.

Duke of Wellington
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Actually, my first literary heroes were the Romantic poets, so I began to get serious by writing poems. I have notebooks full of them that I cherish but am afraid to look at.

John Dufresne
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Poets of course are even more unpredictable than other writers, overwhelmed as they are by the moment they inhabit and finding it difficult to connect yesterday with tomorrow.

Karl Shapiro
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Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares!- The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays.

William Wordsworth
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Happy World Poetry Day: 'The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.

Aberjhani
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Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love.

Nora Roberts
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There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing poets seem to have in common is their yearning to enter this world.

Mary Ruefle
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She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence...they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good...

Eva Ibbotson
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Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.

Honore de Balzac
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For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in the greatest painters, poets, writers, and songwriters in history.

Jeff Feuerzeig
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Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't compete successfully with poets.

Kurt Vonnegut
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Someone in Ireland asked me how many Republican poets there were in the U.S., and I thought maybe two. Maybe there are 10,000 poets, and maybe there are two Republicans among them.

Robert Hass
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Some difficulty is warranted and other difficulty I think is gratuitous. And I think I can tell the difference. There are certainly very difficult poets that I really enjoy reading.

Billy Collins
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I had been dreaming a complicated dream about helping poets revise their poems, so that each ending would open like a flower. I was not arguing, but engaged in a rousing discussion.

Diane Wakoski
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The new king [Alexander the Great] should perform acts so important and glorious as would make the poets and musicians of future ages labour and sweat to describe and celebrate him.

Plutarch
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though we do not have many poets, we certainly have more than we deserve, for we deserve none at all. It is ourselves that we are hurting by our stupidity and ignorance of poetry ...

Elizabeth Janeway
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I think a lot of American poets are swimming-pool Soviets. A lot of them have taken the comfortable, self-protective route too often. I know that I certainly have. That's easy to do.

Sam Hamill
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We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's gloom the first pale spark, While others only note that day is gone.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
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I'd like to imagine that "dreamoir" becomes a subgenre of nonfiction, maybe ultimately because I'd love to read many more dreamoirs by other writers - poets and memoirists especially.

Wendy C. Ortiz
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Anyone who wants to be a writer should, if given the opportunity, hang out with "real writers," that is, poets or writers who are lions in literature, semi-lions, or published authors.

Kirby Wright
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All poets who, when reading from their own works,m experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works are major, whether they choke or not.

E. B. White
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My life all-around is really different than a lot of other poets. Not poets that are parents, too, but just that I can hardly find anyone who works in the industries that I've worked in.

Victoria Chang
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My love for him was so exquisitely pure that if we all were capable of giving and receiving such a beautiful gift the world would be a far more brilliant place; I think we'd all be poets.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill.

Erica Jong
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Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.

Gaston Bachelard
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She sings the songs without words Songs that sailors, and blind men, and beggars have heard She knows more of love than the poets can say And her eyes are for something that won't go away.

Harry Chapin
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when a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of scholars, poets, thinkers and great designers the country and the world have suffered.

James Vila Blake
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We all dream profusely every night, yet by morning we've forgotten ninety percent of what went on. That's why poets are such important members of society. Poets remember our dreams for us.

Tom Robbins
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This, I thought, is how great visionaries and poets see everything- as if for the first time. Each morning they see a new world before their eyes; they do not really see it, they create it.

Nikos Kazantzakis
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Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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People who stand near the water in the darkness are either lovers or poets. Or else ... one of that great gray number who've simply had it -- who throw in their hand and won't play anymore.

Wolfgang Borchert
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Life is empty. Life is meaningless. When we take a life, we arn't taking anything of value. Wetboys are killers. Thats all we do. Thats all we are. There are no poets in the bitter business.

Brent Weeks
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if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets.

Pauline Kael
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Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements of basketball players confined to wheelchairs.

Thomas M. Disch
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Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.

Oscar Wilde
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Let us be thankful that there is no court by which we can be excluded from our share in the inheritance of the great poets of all ages and countries, to which our simple humanity entitles us.

James Russell Lowell
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Speaking as an outsider is the most authentic voice for a poet. Poets who have one hundred thousand or one million readers [as many South Korean poets do] might not be a real, authentic poet.

Kim Hyesoon
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On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra.

Brian Patten
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When I get sent manuscripts from aspiring poets, I do one of two things: if there is no stamped self-addressed envelope, I throw it into the bin.-If there is, I write and tell them to f**k off.

Philip Larkin
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O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly.

James Russell Lowell
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Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such as, 'It is the east, and Juliet is the Sun.'

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.

Aristotle
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England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk.

E. M. Forster
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The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky sentence, I try to write up to the poetry that I have recited beforehand.

Janet Fitch
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The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me. Longing for another person is an exciting mental experience.

Nicole Kidman
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.

Sinclair Lewis
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Freud thought that a psychosis was a waking dream, and that poets were daydreamers too, but I wonder if the reverse is not as often true, and that madness is a fiction lived in like a rented house

William H. Gass
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I agree that comedy does a good job - and is often about - stepping over the line - Lenny Bruce, etc. - and that this is important for a lot of poets too. I guess I feel like there has to be depth.

Rachel Zucker
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I want to be one of those people, be they writers, poets, musicians, who leaves clues for the next generation. The really good people leave clues that help feed the human race. That's my aspiration.

Julian Casablancas
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Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and dickheads.

William C. Brown
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If politicians can't do it, I want to do it. We have to do it. Artists, put it in paintings. Poets, put it in poems, novels. That's what we have to do. And I think it's so important to save the world.

Michael Jackson
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I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly.

Umberto Eco
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God created music as a common language for all men. It inspires the poets, the composers and the architects. It lures us to search our souls for the meaning of the mysteries described in ancient books.

Khalil Gibran
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Girls, there are poets who learn from you to say, what you, in your aloneness, are; and they learn through you to live distantness, as the evenings through the great stars become accustomed to eternity.

Rainer Maria Rilke
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Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore judge only ex post facto; the latter feel and judge at one and the same time.

Honore de Balzac
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I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul!

E. M. Forster
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We're trying to make something that lasts in language and there's no question that many fiction writers began as poets and it's hard for me to think of any good fiction writers who don't also read poetry.

Edward Hirsch
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Citizen's Band radio renders one accessible to a wide variety of people from all walks of life. It should not be forgotten that all walks of life include conceptual artists, dry cleaners, and living poets.

Fran Lebowitz
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Molecules are moving. Universes are colliding. Generations are being born and dying simultaneously, throughout eternity. As one of our great American poets, Walt Whitman, once said: "I contain multitudes."

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.

Miguel de Cervantes
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As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of poets: those who want to tell stories and sing songs, and those who want to work out the chemical equation for language and pass on their experiments as poetry.

Simon Armitage
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Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious to be accepted for what they altimately are as revealed in their poetry.

Stephen Spender
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A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to something. Generally it's all you've got, unless you're brilliant and can write totally in the now.

Paul McCartney
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Poets, on the face of it, have either got to be easier or to write their own notes; readers have either got to take more trouble over reading or cease to regard notes as pretentious and a sign of bad poetry

William Empson
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And so my advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world- unless you're not only willing, but glad, to feel and work and fight till you die.

e. e. cummings
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He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

John Fowles
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Happy you poets who can be present and so present by a simple flicker of your genius, and not, like the clumsier race, have to laya train and pile up faggots that may not after prove in the least combustible!

Henry James
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There's always some reason not to be writing and I regret the times I give in to that, because then writing feels strange - I feel like I have to reinvent the wheel. There are poets who don't have to do that.

Joan Larkin
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Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications. Tramp poets, there you go, a new label for those with unstable allegiances.

C.D. Wright
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Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.

John Milton
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Poets, come out of your closets, Open your windows, open your doors, You have been holed up too long in your closed worlds... Poetry should transport the public/to higher places/than other wheels can carry it...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it

Amber Tamblyn
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I think that the dark side of MFA programs is that they're generating more poets than the culture can absorb and there are more people writing poetry than possibly read it or can certainly earn a living around it.

Edward Hirsch
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The three states of the caterpillar, larva, and butterfly have, since the time of the Greek poets, been applied to typify the human being,--its terrestrial form, apparent death, and ultimate celestial destination.

Humphry Davy
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I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say.

Socrates
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a. Critics: people who make monuments out of books. b. Biographers: people who make books out of monuments. c. Poets: people who raze monuments. d. Publishers: people who sell rubble. e. Readers: people who buy it.

Cynthia Ozick
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The ghosts of Rilke and Wordsworth--along with the 300+ MFA programs, which now seem to employ all Living Poets--have misled the American public egregiously into thinking that poets are morally pure and/or useless.

Katy Lederer
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I know that in some ways I operate from a kind of antiquated interest in imagery, while many contemporary poets are not so interested in imagery. I think part of it is my training, and just my visual sense of things.

Martha Ronk
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Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no business to be writing, to be a poet unless some philosophic stinker gave him permission.

William Carlos Williams
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Emily Dickinson calls previous poets her kinsmen of the shelf. You can always be consoled by your kinsmen of the shelf and you can participate in poetry by going to them and by trying to make something worthy of them.

Edward Hirsch
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Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.

Robert Frost
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In general, I find that poets spend a lot of time thinking about themselves, and not a lot of time thinking about other poets, or other poetry. Unless they think about how it affects them, or how it could impact them.

Victoria Chang
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I feel that women of my kind are a profound mistake. There have been few women poets of distinction, and, if we count only the suicides of Sappho, Lawrence Hope and Charlotte Mew, their despair rate has been very high.

Anna Wickham
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Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition - and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes...

Edgar Allan Poe
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Sunlight 's a thing that needs a window Before it enter a dark room. Windows don't happen." So two old poets, Hunched at their beer in the low haze Of an inn parlour, while the talk ran Noisily by them, glib with prose.

R. S. Thomas
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Poets will never be the highest-paid writers in the world. Instead, poetry will go on cutting a hand-made path through the mass-market insanity. For me, anyway, that path is the one that leads to the Chapel of the Grail.

Jeanette Winterson
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One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation.

P. G. Wodehouse
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I love when I meet generous poets, and generous meaning nice people, who give to the poetry community, who do interviews, read other people's books, and talk about them, spread the...love, I guess. That means a lot to me.

Victoria Chang
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There are some singer-songwriters who start out as poets. So someone like Leonard Cohen wrote and published poetry in the early 60s, but then started writing songs. Bob Dylan's a poet in the sense of bard, aoidos or vates.

Richard F. Thomas
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The modern sensibility attempts to drain the contents of experience; these Greek poets strive to state the fact so poignantly that it becomes an ever-flowing spring as Sappho says, "More real than real, more gold than gold.

Kenneth Rexroth
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There are many poets that use as my models. In my first book of poems, I had several for the "Sleepwalkers," I had several poems that were apprentice poems like this in which I take a walk with a poet who is no longer alive.

Edward Hirsch
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Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all a fable, with which the poets amuse themselves, and by them agitate us with vain terrors.

Seneca the Younger
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Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.

T. S. Eliot
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I'm a line-maker. I think that's what makes poets different from prose-writers. That's the main way. We think, not just in sentences the way prose writers do but also in lines. So we're doing these two things at the same time.

Billy Collins
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Kabul was a thriving cosmopolitan city with its vibrant artistic, intellectual and cultural life. There were poets, musicians, and writers. There was also an influx of western culture, art, and literature in the '60s and '70s.

Khaled Hosseini
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When I became a poet, the Korean literary world expected women poets to sing passively of love. Naturally, this was not written anywhere, but this rule existed nonetheless. Consequently, I received plenty of serious criticism.

Kim Hyesoon
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I thought poetry could change everything, could change history and could humanize, and I think that the illusion is very necessary to push poets to be involved and to believe, but now I think that poetry changes only the poet.

Mahmoud Darwish
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Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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How can you work on letting your thoughts go and getting synchronized into the moment and questioning your wild imagination. But I say just think of all the great Japanese and Chinese poets and scholars who were also meditators.

Anne Waldman
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Brilliant. [Lasdun] seems to me certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English, and far better than many who are more famous. His capacities are solidly established; his promise is nearly infinite.

Anthony Hecht
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I happen to believe that there are a lot of good poets around at present, but a poet like Alex Kuo, who possesses a highly developed moral sense and a bitter honesty, is rare at any time and especially in this time. We need him.

Carolyn Kizer
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It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics.... Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose in cruelty against themselves, admitting that they are pandering to, and despising, the lower self.

D. H. Lawrence
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Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set themselves tasks that no one else dares imagine will literature continue to have a function.

Italo Calvino
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When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general study of literature. He also feels himself excused from the particular study of Shakespeare.

Aubrey Beardsley
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The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer has forgotten it, who should remember it, as the instrument of [the dance] art is the human body itself.

Isadora Duncan
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I think there's probably always been visions and voices, and these were variously ascribed to the divine or demonic or the muses. I think many poets still feel they depend on an inner voice, or a voice which tells them what to do.

Oliver Sacks
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All poets have signalized their consciousness of rare moments when they were superior to themselves, -when a light, a freedom, a power came to them which lifted them to performances far better than they could reach at other times.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You might learn as much about how to write by reading Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Wallace Stevens, Raymond Chandler, Saul Bellow, Paul Muldoon or a hundred other good novelists or poets than by seeing another round of John Ford revivals.

David Denby
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Powell belongs, in fact to the first generation of American poets who may have grown up without even a vestigial connection to the accentual-syllabic, rhyming English tradition - his inventive lines have this absence at their back.

Stephen Burt
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But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help with their specialized knowledge the few independent thinkers, that is to say the poets, who try to to keep civilization alive.

Robert Graves
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