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“Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.”

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Book:Selected Poetry

Source: Selected Poetry

“The lamp you lighted in the olden time Will show you my heart's-blood beating through the rhyme: A poet's journal, writ in fire and tears... Then slow deliverance, with the gaps of years.”

Years Heart Shows Poetry Fire Blood Tears Poet My Heart Gaps Journal Rhyme Lamps Deliverance Olden Times

Book:The Poems of Bayard Taylor

Source: The Poems of Bayard Taylor

“The difference between a poet and a philosopher is that the poet sees logically and describes basically the beauty whereas the philosopher defines the basics and shows the beauty of logics.”

Shows Differences Poet Logic Philosopher Basics

Author:Anuj

“Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace?”

Men May Children Littles Long States Use Shows Song Speak Teach Grace He Man Poet Weight Let Me Soldier Tongue Prose Verses Accents Foreigners

Book:An Essay on Man: And Other Poems

Source: An Essay on Man: And Other Poems

“Some moralist or mythological poet Compares the solitary soul to a swan; I am satisfied with that, Satisfied if a troubled mirror show it, Before that brief gleam of its life be gone.”

Ifs Soul Shows Life Is Beauty Gone Poet Mirrors Proof Satisfied Compare Solitary Swans Gleam Moralist

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics.”

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Book:Parting Shots from My Brittle Bow: Reflections on American Politics and Life

Source: Parting Shots from My Brittle Bow: Reflections on American Politics and Life

“If you want to be considered a poet, you will have to show mastery of the petrarchan sonnet form or the sestina. Your musical efforts must begin with well-formed fugues. There is no substitute for craft... Art begins with craft, and there is no art until craft has been mastered.”

Ifs Want Wells Has Beens Art Shows Form Effort Poet Art Is Musical Crafts Substitutes Mastery Sonnet Fugue

Book:But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?: Homage to Qwert Yuiop, and Other Writings

Source: But Do Blondes Prefer Gentlemen?: Homage to Qwert Yuiop, and Other Writings

“I really think kids should understand that music is like learning the alphabet. You put small letters together to make words, and then you use these words to create a story, but with music. And they really need to know how to mix and match those letters and how to come up with something that is really interesting, or speak in metaphors as poets do to show us something maybe we didn't think about.”

Thinking Knows Needs Should Stories Use Shows Kids Together Speak Interesting Know How Poet Music Is Letters Metaphor Come Up Really Interesting Alphabet

Author:Terry Bozzio

“As an artist, I never wanted to be fettered by gender nor recognized or defined as a female poet, musician or singer. They don't do that with men - nobody says Picasso, the male artist. Curators call me up and say, "We want your work to be in a show about women artists," and I'm like, why? For Christ's sake, do we have to attach a gender onto everything?”

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Author:Patti Smith