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title: "8 Poet Written Quotes by 8 authors"
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> [He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-sand/he-who-draws-noble-delights-from-sentiments-of-poetry-is-a-true-poet/)

[George Sand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-sand/)

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> [No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lascelles-abercrombie/no-poet-will-ever-take-the-written-word-as-a-substitute-for-the/)

[Lascelles Abercrombie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lascelles-abercrombie/)

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> [I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-mcgregor/i-once-saw-a-picture-in-the-paper-of-john-hegley-with-poet-written-on/)

[Jon McGregor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-mcgregor/)

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> [“How I hate this silk dress that conceals a poet. Written in the mid 9th century by a brave woman poet. Even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yu-hsuan-chi/how-i-hate-this-silk-dress-that-conceals-a-poet-written-in-the-mid/)

[Yu Hsuan-Chi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yu-hsuan-chi/)

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> [I am not sure, once a poet has found out what has been written already, and how it was written - once,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-larkin/i-am-not-sure-once-a-poet-has-found-out-what-has-been-written-already/)

[Philip Larkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-larkin/)

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> [Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irving-stone/drawing-is-the-poet-s-written-line-set-down-to-see-if-there-be-a/)

[Irving Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irving-stone/)

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> [Isn't it curious how one has only to open a book of verse to realise immediately that it was written by a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edith-sitwell/isn-t-it-curious-how-one-has-only-to-open-a-book-of-verse-to-realise/)

[Edith Sitwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edith-sitwell/)

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> [In the eyes of others a man is a poet if he has written one good poem. In his own he is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/in-the-eyes-of-others-a-man-is-a-poet-if-he-has-written-one-good-poem/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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