"'Therefore' is a word the poet must not…" — Andre Gide

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• Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them… — Hannah Arendt
• It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
• I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until… — Paul Auster
• I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary… — Paul Auster
• But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed… — Chinua Achebe
• Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid… — Margaret Atwood
• A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. — Wystan Hugh Auden
• It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. — Wystan Hugh Auden
• No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were… — Wystan Hugh Auden
• Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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