Quotes about Poets

What this country needs is a great poem. John Brown's Body was a step in...

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To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty: to be a poet at...

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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an...

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Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.

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The poet only desires exaltation and expansion. The poet only asks to get his head...

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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they...

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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician,...

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Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

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The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders...

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Always be a poet, even in prose.

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...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to...

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A good poet's made as well as born.

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