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“Emotions don’t change, but how we express them can vary. Some are honest and straightforward, we call them Lovers Some are creative and eloquent, we call them POETS”

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“That a Poet describes nothing so happily, as what he has seen; nor talks masterly, but in his native Language, and proper Idiom; nor mimicks truly other Manners, than those whose Originals he has practised and known.”

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Book:An Enquiry into the Life and Writings of Homer

Source: An Enquiry into the Life and Writings of Homer

“And a painting could be a beautiful poem in vain, But poetry is simply romanticizing the pain.”

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Book:Ethereal

Source: Ethereal

“Will had long ago learned not to interrupt when an admirer described his play as if the poet was hearing the plot for the first time.”

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Book:The Sister Queens

Source: The Sister Queens

“The poets are imagined people.”

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Author:Manjushree Mohanty

“As a class poets are not without cultural status. Like priests in a town of agnostics, they still command a certain residual prestige. But as individual artists they are almost invisible.”

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Book:Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture

Source: Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture

“Today poetry is a modestly upwardly mobile, middle-class profession—not as lucrative as waste management or dermatology but several big steps above the squalor of bohemia.”

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Book:Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture

Source: Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture

“Tintinnabulation, honestly! As if further proof were needed of the slipperiness of poets! They make up words willy-nilly and have them mean whatever they like. Thank heavens they are licensed and thus kept somewhat in check. If they were not, could full-blown mayhem be far behind?”

Book:The Long-Lost Home

Source: The Long-Lost Home

“Did you know, ma'am, that our mutual friend can say "kiss my arse" in six languages?”

Book:No True Gentleman

Source: No True Gentleman

“I don’t trust masters who can’t be down-to-earth. For me they’re like those eccentric poets who can’t write like everybody else. I accept that they’re eccentric, but I’d like them to show me that it’s because they’re superior to the norm rather than incapable of it.”

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Book:The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“There is more rejoicing in heaven over one lost poet found than in 99 novelists who have never strayed.”

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Book:Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture

Source: Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture