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“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”

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Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters

“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets. Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second.”

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Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Coleridge cried; "O God, how glorious it is to live!" Renan asks, "O God, when will it be worth while to live?" In Nature we echo the poet; in the world we echo the thinker.”

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Book:Chandos. Randolph Gordon. Slander and sillery. Blue and yellow. Belles and blackcock. A line in the

Source: Chandos. Randolph Gordon. Slander and sillery. Blue and yellow. Belles and blackcock. A line in the

“God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.”

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Author:Honore de Balzac

“Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?”

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Book:Your Native Land, Your Life

Source: Your Native Land, Your Life

“It is not possible, for a poet, writing in any language, to protect himself from the tragic elements in human life.... [ellipsis in source] Illness, old age, and death--subjects as ancient as humanity--these are the subjects that the poet must speak of very nearly from the first moment that he begins to speak.”

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Author:Louise Bogan

“The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.”

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Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Poets can't worry about popularity since loving life and humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear.”

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Author:Vanna Bonta

“No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.”

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Author:W. H. Auden

“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”

Source: Bruce Lee: Artist of Life

“I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.”

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Author:Laurence Olivier

“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”

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Book:Reviews

Source: Reviews