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“The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling; Bringing to light and use, else hid from all, The many sweet clear sources which we have of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms; And marks the variations of all mind As does the needle.”

Mind Doe Use Feelings Light Clear Poet Sweet Source Mark Pens Variation Bosoms Needles

Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army.”

Needs Poet Directors Army Painter Pens Brushes

Author:Orson Welles

“In autumn, when the leaves are brown, Take pen and ink, and write it down.”

Writing Poetry Poet Brown Autumn Pens Ink

Book:Through the Looking-Glass

Source: Through the Looking-Glass

“With this pen I take in hand my selves and with these dead disciples I will grapple. Though rain curses the window let the poem be made.”

Made Self Hands Poetry Poet Rain Window Curse Pens Disciple

Author:Anne Sexton

“The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.”

May Has Beens Poetry Poet Ought Pens Historian

Book:Don Quixote de la Mancha

Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha

“In days of yore, the poet's pen From wing of bird was plunder'd, Perhaps of goose, but now and then, From Jove's own eagle sunder'd. But now, metallic pens disclose Alone the poet's numbers; In iron inspiration glows, Or with the poet slumbers.”

Inspiration Numbers Poet Bird Wings Iron Pens Now And Then Eagles Geese Slumber Plunder Metallic

Author:John Adams

“Ever since roughly 1890, when snot poets first decided that rhyme was confining and unnecessary, every idiot with a pen fancied hisself a poet. The mere act of rhyming was suddenly regarded as a quaint, mannered, and uncool atavism, consigning doggerelists like me to the trash bin of literary history.”

Firsts Poet Decided Mere Like Me Idiot Pens Unnecessary Rhyme Trash Rhyming Quaint Uncool

Author:Gene Weingarten

“A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions to strangers and aliens.”

Real Nations Poet Deeds Possession Stranger Aliens Titles Owners Pens Strokes

Book:The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses

Source: The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses