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“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

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Book:Intimate Journals

Source: Intimate Journals

“The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.”

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Book:Forty-four Essays by Christopher Morley

Source: Forty-four Essays by Christopher Morley

“Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.”

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Author:Alfred de Musset

“I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.”

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Author:Pablo Neruda

“All a poet can do today is warn.”

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Author:Wilfred Owen

“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.”

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Author:Edgar Allan Poe

“A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.”

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Author:Salman Rushdie

“He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.”

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Book:The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).

Source: The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).

“Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.”

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Book:Harvest Poems: 1910-1960

Source: Harvest Poems: 1910-1960

“Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.”

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Author:Steven Seagal

“A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.”

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Author:Wallace Stevens

“When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.”

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Author:Niels Bohr

“To have great poets, there must be great audiences.”

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Book:Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose

Source: Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose

“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”

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Book:Reviews

Source: Reviews

“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”

“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”

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Author:William Butler Yeats

“A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.”

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Author:Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book.”

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Author:Kenneth Rexroth

“Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.”

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Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.”

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Author:Robert Frost

“A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.”

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Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.”

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Author:John Adams

“Summer's lease hath all too short a date.”

“A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.”

Doe Poetry Clear Poet Dare Remove Veils Trifles

Book:In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

Source: In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers

“The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.”

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Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“God is the perfect poet.”

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Author:Robert Browning

“A poem begins with a lump in the throat”

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Book:The Collected Prose of Robert Frost

Source: The Collected Prose of Robert Frost

“Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.”

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Author:Sigmund Freud

“Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.”

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Author:Carl Sandburg

“Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.”

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Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.”

Ifs Want Poetry Poet Annoying Nerdiness

Book:Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

“If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.”

“Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.”

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Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.”

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Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.”

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Author:Dennis Gabor

“Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.”

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Book:The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

“Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.”

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Author:Paul Engle

“The poet is the priest of the invisible.”

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Author:Wallace Stevens

“I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off of a savanna or out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said, "Ahhh." That was the first poem.”

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Author:Lucille Clifton

“All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'”

Political Poetry Poet Status Quo

Book:Conversations with Sonia Sanchez

Source: Conversations with Sonia Sanchez

“Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet.”

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Book:The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.”

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Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.”

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Author:W. H. Auden

“There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.”

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Author:William Cowper

“A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.”

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Author:Robert Graves

“Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.”

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Book:Essays of Four Decades

Source: Essays of Four Decades

“As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no belief n 'tradition' or a common myth-kitty or casual allusions in poems to other poems or poets, which last I find unpleasantly like the talk of literary understrappers letting you see they know the right people.”

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Author:Philip Larkin

“Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets; and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,-under-makers.”

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Book:Festus: a poem

Source: Festus: a poem

“By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman, or the charlatan. In other words, it forfeits its own evolutionary potential. For what distinguishes us from the rest of the animal kingdom is precisely the gift of speech. Poetry is not a form of entertainment and in a certain sense not even a form of art, but it is our anthropological, genetic goal. Our evolutionary, linguistic beacon.”

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Author:Joseph Brodsky

“A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.”

Should Dream Poetry Poet Proof Passages

Author:Rene Char

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