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


John Fowles
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Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.


Paul Engle
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
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Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.


Terry Pratchett
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One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.


Jane Fonda
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You have to understand the medium you're writing for. People jump into writing musicals without realizing how complicated they are. Knowing one form doesn't necessarily mean you know the other. You have to be comfortable with it.
Jason Robert Brown
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I write poetry, and I put it to a beat - I mean, that's what they call rap.


Keith Stanfield
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I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going for a visceral impression, and I write the words last.
Todd Rundgren
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I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter, and you can find things.
Carol Ann Duffy
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I think especially older people, and I count myself one, in the business - people get to know who you really are. So there comes a time when you can't just go in and audition without everybody knowing exactly how you've brought up your kids, what you said at the meeting, what kind of food you cook.
Mimi Kennedy
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Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.


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


Federico Fellini
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Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.


Bernie Taupin
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By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.
Terry Pratchett
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Of all the many leaders I have met in the course of my life, none made a deeper impression on me than Nelson Mandela. His courage, compassion, humility and wisdom were without parallel on the world stage, and he himself was an enduring source of inspiration.
Klaus Schwab
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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?


Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts. They can criticize you without even knowing you, and hate you when they don't even know you. All of a sudden, you're, like, the bin Laden of America. Osama bin Laden is the only one who knows exactly what I'm going through.
R. Kelly
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What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color can find someone in their own family who had experienced a migration of some kind, knowing the sense of dislocation, longing and fortitude.
Isabel Wilkerson
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Network shows shoot so fast, so you kind of have to just go with your instinct.


Natalie Dormer
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