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Science is not addressed to poets.


George Henry Lewes
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Poets wish to profit or to please.


Horace
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The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.


Socrates
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Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.


Allen Ginsberg
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I'm an amalgam of the 19th-century romantics and the beat poets.


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


Federico Fellini
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Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.


George Orwell
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Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.


Bernie Taupin
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Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.


Aristotle
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We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.


John Fowles
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I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.


Francine Prose
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Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.


Jean Cocteau
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I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.


Seamus Heaney
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I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.


Jack Prelutsky
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America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.


Rebecca Harding Davis
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The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
Edmund Spenser
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Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.


Paul Muldoon
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Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.


James Broughton
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Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.


Ernest Hemingway
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There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it.
Daniel Radcliffe
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My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.
Luc Ferrari
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When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.


Benjamin Franklin
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When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.
Peter Coyote
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I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.
P. J. Harvey
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
Erica Jong
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
Harold Bloom
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The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings.
Margaret Mitchell
Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.
Stephen Sondheim
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People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.
Lucille Clifton
I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie.
Carl Sandburg
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Romanians have a particular love for poetry and have a beautiful, vivid language. The poets they love are not versifiers like Vadim Tudor, but genuinely complex mystical souls like Mircea Cartarescu.
Andrei Codrescu
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I think 'Dead Poets' was probably my favorite, just to get started with the idea of doing a movie that people treated as more than a movie.
Robin Williams
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There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die.
Sharon Olds
Believe it or not, one of the first poets I was aware of was Yeats. I recited 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' at a verse speaking competition when I was eight or nine.
Paul Muldoon
Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.
William Butler Yeats
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Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone.
Eyvind Johnson
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In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also poets who sang and entertained prince and pauper.
F. Sionil Jose
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The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.
Nikki Giovanni
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Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.
Dan Quisenberry
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T.S. Eliot was one of the first poets introduced to me when I started studying literature and has felt like a close friend ever since. No one nails urban despair quite like Eliot.
Penelope Mitchell
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