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“Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of a man. The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain-- For the reed that grows never more again As a reed with the reeds of the river.”

Men Pain Grows Half Music Laughing Poet Cost Rivers Beast Sigh Reeds True God

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“Poet, never chase the dream. Laugh yourself and turn away. Mask your hunger, let it seem Small matter if he come or stay; But when he nestles in your hand at last, Close up your fingers tight and hold him fast.”

Ifs Matter Dream Hands Seems Lasts Turns Laughing Poet Fingers Hunger Mask

Book:Complete Poems

Source: Complete Poems

“As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets.”

Knows Littles Faces Common Laughing Poet Tall Sneer Taciturn

Author:Carol Ann Duffy

“Our Poets make us laugh at Tragœdy, And with their Comoedies they make us cry.”

Laughing Cry Poet

Author:Theresa Villiers

“A poet or a comedian can say what's on the mind of people. They should be funny. They should make you laugh. It may be so truthful that it hurts, but it makes you laugh.”

People Should Mind May Hurt Laughing Poet Comedian Truthful It Hurts Make You Laugh

Author:Russell Simmons

“The underground went really underground. Grand Funk, and all these people man are the moderate's choice of music. Underground is Yoko Ono, The Black Poets. These people scare the hell out of most freaks. They laugh at Yoko Ono, but it's the whole cliché.”

People Men Choices Black Laughing Hell Poet Scare Freak Funk

Author:David Bowie