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To love is to transform; to be a poet. — Norman O. Brown
A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility. — John Keats
Mourn not for the vanished ages with their grand, heroic men, who dwell in history's pages and live in the poets pen for the grandest… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Like a great poet, nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. There are simply a sun, flowers, water, and love. — Heinrich Heine
As poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore reminds us, "We cannot cross the sea merely by staring at the water." Simplicity has power. And living on purpose comes… — Dan Millman
I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's… — Karl Kraus
As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is… — Salvatore Quasimodo
Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not difficult to write… — Miller Williams
Poets are interested mostly in death and commas. — Carolyn Kizer
The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real. — Simone Weil
I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when… — Mark Twain
The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment of the critical… — Sigmund Freud
I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole… — Robert Frost
We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what you will. Why?… — Harry Crews
When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very… — Virginia Woolf
There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the… — Ernest Hemingway
No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest… — Unknown Author
Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat.… — Andrea Dworkin
No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population, there will be… — John T. Flynn
But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always expected… — Tennessee Williams
...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor. — Samuel Johnson
I wish that we lived in a time and a generation where people would stop viewing my honesty as overly emotional. People always act like… — Drake
And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have. — Elizabeth Bishop
Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post… — Max Euwe

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