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This poet is a griot in search of a village. — Kwame Dawes
I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think the poet is… — Diane di Prima
Sweetheart, when you break thru you'll find a poet here, not quite what one would choose. — Diane di Prima
I don’t worry anymore about writing. There are times that I go through dry periods. I never go through a block. I’m always writing, but… — Dorianne Laux
I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I wanted to be a poem. — Unknown Author
What a comfort to know that God is a poet. — Rachel Held Evans
We need help, the poet reckoned. — Edward Dorn
The Danger of a Single Story”, which has resonated with me immensely every time I read it. “Power is the ability not just to tell… — Mourid Barghouti
I remember I was a child, and when I grew up I was a poet. It all happened at sixty miles an hour and on… — Mary Ruefle
There is a world which poets cannot seem to enter. It is the world everybody else lives in. And the only thing poets seem to… — Mary Ruefle
Ariel Gordon is superbly, supremely, a poet of the body. She finds words for the physicality of the forest, of the garden, of pregnancy. Hump… — Robert Kroetsch
Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up? — Gary D. Schmidt
Andy Brown is one of our most interesting and exciting younger poets. With its love of ideas and language, his work demonstrates that there need… — John Burnside
In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough. — Stephen Greenblatt
The scientist has marched in and taken the place of the poet. But one day somebody will find the solution to the problems of the… — Frank Lloyd Wright
Always was Morocco. And recently the country's leadership seems to have embraced it in all its ill-reputed glory. The days of predatory poets in search… — Anthony Bourdain
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets. — Oscar Wilde
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry. — Edith Hamilton
This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. — Albert Einstein
More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire what they cannot… — Eric Hoffer
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic… — Oscar Wilde
A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove… — Elwyn Brooks White
Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away… — Henry Wriston
Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge - they will be… — Vissarion Belinsky

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