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“They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their own.”

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Book:The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson

Source: The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson

“I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent.”

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Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I don't think I ever had a morning where I woke up and said I'm going to be a professional poet. I know I've always loved poetry, I've always loved writing poetry and I've always loved sharing poetry. I've also always known that I wanted that to somehow be a very large part of my life and I'm very fortunate that it's such a large part of my life.”

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Author:Sarah Kay

“we are far too used to the assumption that poetry and poets will be there when we want them, no matter how long they have been ignored, taken for granted, misused. After all, isn't poetry a form of prophecy, and aren't prophets known for their talent for flourishing in inhospitable deserts and other bleak surroundings? Maybe. But maybe not indefinitely.”

Source: A movement of poets: thoughts on poetry and feminism

“The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.”

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Book:The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic

Source: The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic

“Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.”

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Author:Aberjhani

“I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.”

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Author:F. Sionil José

“Prophetic utterance, like poetic utterance, transforms experience and moves the receiver to new attitudes. The kinds of experience--the recognitions or revelations--out of which both prophecy and poetry emerge, are such as to stir the prophet or poet to speech that may exceed their own known capacities; they are "inspired," they breathe in revelation and breathe out new words; and by so doing they transfer over to the listener or reader a parallel experience, a parallel intensity, which impels that person into new attitudes and new actions.”

“Happy indeed the poet of whom, like Orpheus, nothing is known but an immortal name! Happy next, perhaps, the poet of whom, like Homer, nothing is known but the immortal works. The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine mission.”

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Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Encased in talent like a uniform, The rank of every poet is well known; They can amaze us like a thunderstorm, Or die so young, or live for years alone.”

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Author:W. H. Auden

“genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man, the strongest known link between the material life we have and the spiritual life that we can only guess at. Every great poet, painter, or musician - every inventor or man of science, every fine actor or orator, comes to us as the exponent of something diviner than we know. We cannot understand it, but we feel it, and acknowledge it.”

“My mother actually left American in 1929 to be part of an alternative community of bohemians around her then father-in-law who was a well-known Greek poet. This group of people were living in this semi-Luddite reality and weaving their own clothes - proto-hippies in a way- -but around an artistic vision.”

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Author:Anne Waldman

“In America, where you'd have thought the country's so huge it couldn't happen quite so cosily, everyone's giving his imprimatur to everyone else. You line up three or four well-known poets and a couple of eminent academics on the dustjacket, and the rest of academe follow like sheep. That's death really, if you take pleasure in it. Mind you, the occasional puff's hard to resist, but you shouldn't inhale.”

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Author:Michael Longley

“The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.”

Years Children Known Four Childhood Poet Four Years Innate

Book:Chimneysmoke

Source: Chimneysmoke

“A reading is a kind of communion. The poet articulates the semi-known for the tribe.”

Kind Reading Known Poet Communion Tribes

Book:The Real Work: Interviews & Talks, 1964-1979

Source: The Real Work: Interviews & Talks, 1964-1979

“Adrienne Rich was one of the most widely-read and influential poets of her time, a leading feminist, known especially for her politically-engaged verse. Her best-known volume, "Diving into the Wreck," won the National Book Award in 1973.”

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Author:Earl Scruggs

“Leonard [Nimoy] was such a teacher for me. He was one of the most fully realized human beings I have ever known on every level - in his personal life with his personal relationships and his love for his wife and his evolution with his family. Then as an artist, as an actor, as a writer, as a poet, and as a photographer. He never stopped.”

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Author:Zachary Quinto

“For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine. Had he learned by rules of art, he would have known how to speak not of one theme only, but of all; and therefore God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us.”

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Author:Plato

“When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.”

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Author:Howard Nemerov

“I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.”

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Book:Ever the Winds of Chance

Source: Ever the Winds of Chance

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