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Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense — Lucille Clifton
I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or… — Harold Bloom
The Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society. — William Wordsworth
Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging… — Edward Abbey
Poets seem to write more easily about love than prose writers. For a start, they own that flexible ‘I’…. Then again, poets seem able to… — Julian Barnes
Good poets borrow, great poets steal — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
A quote that I like very much comes close to explaining my attitude about taking photographs. ‘Chinese poetry rarely trespasses beyond the bounds of actuality… — Stephen Shore
The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied. — Sigmund Freud
What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit… — Carl Jung
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a… — Abraham Maslow
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets. — Aristophanes
The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In… — Horace
I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words. — Ovid
In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go… — Robert Fitzgerald
Poets are being pursued by the philosophers today, out of the poverty of philosophy. God damn it, you might think a man had no business… — William Carlos Williams
I’m a poet. And then I put the poetry in the drama. I put it in short stories, and I put it in the plays.… — Tennessee Williams
The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing… — Arthur Miller
The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent,… — Eugene Ionesco
Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity… — Wassily Kandinsky
It is the poet and philosopher who provide the community of objectives in which the artist participates. Their chief preoccupation, like the artist, is the… — Mark Rothko
I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets, — PJ Harvey
Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange and dark side… — Madeleine L'Engle
Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements of basketball players… — Thomas M. Disch
Poets find truth by writing about what they love. — Susan Cooper

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