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As we to the brutes, poets are to us. — George Meredith
There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of… — Washington Irving
All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual. — Helen Vendler
For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is a true thing.… — Helen Vendler
Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate. — William Wycherley
Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities. — Adam Gopnik
The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends. — Marshall McLuhan
Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us,… — Gaston Bachelard
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times. — Randall Jarrell
In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things — Rita Dove
Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets? — Eugene H. Peterson
But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get… — Christopher Dawson
In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest… — Jeremy Bentham
I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot — Muriel Rukeyser
I cant look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do. — Isaac Rosenberg
In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets. — Jonas Mekas
Oh, what company good poets are! — Jose Marti
The violinist must possess the poets gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth… — Yehudi Menuhin
In the streets the children screamed. The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed — Don McLean
All melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads, when once the penetrating keynote of nature and spirit is sounded-the earth-beat, sea-beat, heart-beat, which make… — Charles Ives
Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money. — Robert Penn Warren
The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem… — Robert Penn Warren
Poets talk about "spots of time", but it is really the fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a… — Norman Maclean
After all that corrupt poets, and more corrupt philosophers, have told us of the blandishments of pleasure, and of its tendency to soften the temper… — Hannah More
Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. — Robert Wyatt

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