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• It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
• He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him. — John Dryden
• And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not… — Plato
• Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on?… — Roger McGough
• I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There… — Helen Dunmore
• So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love… — Ellen Bass
• Hip-hop is getting to the point now where they are going to start sounding like Al Jarreau or Bobby McFerrin or some… — George Clinton
• I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments… — Carl Sandburg
• I wonder about all the roads not taken and am moved to quote Frost...but won't. It is sad to be able only… — Sylvia Plath
• Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
• And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and… — Len G. Murray
• While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I… — Thom Gunn

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