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• If idioms are more to be born than to be selected, then the things of life and human nature that a man… — Charles Ives
• The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they… — Jacques Maritain
• A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of. — Stanley Kunitz
• A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living. — James Broughton
• At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some… — Charles Ives
• The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ...… — James A. Baldwin
• The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Where is heaven? you ask me, my child,-the sages tell us it is beyond the limits of birth and death, unswayed by… — Rabindranath Tagore
• Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse. a matching and shifting of… — Louis Untermeyer
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