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Poet Quotes by Arthur Rimbaud
- The poet, therefore, is truly the thief of fire. He is responsible for humanity, for animals even; he will have to make sure his visions…
- ...these poets here, you see, they are not of this world:let them live their strange life; let them be cold and hungry, let them run,…
- The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness;…
- I'm now making myself as scummy as I can. Why? I want to be a poet, and I'm working at turning myself into a seer.…
- The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses
- The first study for the man who wants to be a poet is knowledge of himself, complete: he searches for his soul, he inspects it,…
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
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- Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration… — 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 his art… — Wystan Hugh Auden
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- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — Wystan Hugh Auden