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“When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.”

Men Heart Lasts Moving Dies Poet Tongue

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“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.”

Writing Trying Poetry Dies Language Poet Standards Sentences

Author:Janet Fitch

“Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.”

Ends Dies Failing Poet

Book:The Isle of Blood

Source: The Isle of Blood

“Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou'd long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails.”

World May Long Together Lasts Dies Language Lines Failing Poet Bounds Tongue Envy Vain Verses Prophecy Boast

Author:Edmund Waller

“I do not remember where I read that there are two kinds of poets: the good poets, who at a certain point destroy their bad poems and go off to run guns in Africa, and the bad poets, who publish theirs and keep writing more until they die.”

Writing Kind Two Running Remember Certain Dies Poet Gun Publish

Author:Umberto Eco

“We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, We Poets of the proud old lineage Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why What shall we tell you? Tales, marvellous tales Of ships and stars and isles where good men rest.”

Knows Men Heart Song Dies Stars Poet Proud Tales Ships Good Man Swear Lilies Pilgrimage Beauty Of Life Marvellous Isle Lineage

Author:James Elroy Flecker

“Maeterlinck says that compared with ordinary truths mystic truths have strange privileges - they can neither age nor die. Beauty is eternal and ugliness, thank God, is ephemeral. Can there be any question as to which should attract the poet?”

Should Age Dies Strange Poet Eternal Ordinary Privilege Thank God Ugliness Mystic Ephemeral

Author:Florence Earle Coates

“Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.]”

Dies Water Too Much Modern Poet Ink

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I will not go so far as to say, with a living poet, that the world knows nothing of its greatest men; but there are forms of greatness, or at least of excellence, which "die and make no sign"; there are martyrs that miss the palm, but not the stake; heroes without the laurel, and conquerors without the triumph.”

Knows Men World Form Dies Missing Greatness Poet Hero Excellence Triumph Stakes Palms Martyr Conqueror Laurels Greatest Man

Author:George Augustus Henry Sala

“Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet.”

Death Poetry Dies Black Feet Poet Dust Buried Trumpets All Black

Book:The Essential Etheridge Knight

Source: The Essential Etheridge Knight

“It seems to me a purely lyric poet gives himself, right down to his sex, to his mood, utterly and abandonedly, whirls himself roundtill he spontaneously combusts into verse. He has nothing that goes on, no passion, only a few intense moods, separate like odd stars, and when each has burned away, he must die.”

Giving Seems Poetry Dies Passion Stars Sex Poet Goes On Mood Intense Odd Burned Verses

Author:D. H. Lawrence