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title: "3 Poet Tell Quotes by 3 authors"
description: "Browse 3 Poet Tell quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Poet Tell sayings and thoughts."
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> [Here in the United States, we speak with reverence of authentic experience. We write poems about our daddies taking us fishing and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-simic/here-in-the-united-states-we-speak-with-reverence-of-authentic/)

[Charles Simic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-simic/)

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> [As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early work, I see, yes, I could do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-koch/as-i-look-over-my-work-i-mean-every-time-i-look-over-my-early-work-i/)

[Kenneth Koch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-koch/)

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> [There is this tendency to think that if you could only find the magic way, then you could become a poet. "Tell…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erica-jong/there-is-this-tendency-to-think-that-if-you-could-only-find-the-magic/)

[Erica Jong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erica-jong/)

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