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Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty. — Dennis Potter
Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there… — Roger McGough
By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed by his family… — Murray Kempton
If any of you are secret poets, the best way to break into print is to run for the presidency, — Eugene McCarthy
One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it all is hard to tell. — Marguerite Yourcenar
In the year of our Lord 1314. Patriots of Scotland, starving and outnumbered, charged the fields of Bannockburn. They fought like warrior poets. They fought… — William Wallace
I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense… — Helen Dunmore
Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children. — Alphonse Daudet
There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends. — Adrian Mitchell
So far as love or affection is concerned, psychologists have failed in their mission. The little we know about love does not transcend simple observation,… — Unknown Author
If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to… — Michael Kinsley
Whether we are poets or parents or teachers or artists or gardeners, we must start where we are and use what we have. In the… — Luci Shaw
Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of intellectual endeavour. Truly… — John Naughton
We painters use the same license as poets and madmen. — Paolo Veronese
One of the most intuitive nature writers of our recently past century, Peter Matthiessen, lends a poets voice to the desperate effort to save the… — Ron Franscell
Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate, For morning dreams, as poets tell, are true. — Michael Bruce
We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream , and we won't let this world die without a fight. — Albert Camus
For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings? — Sir John Davies
We're football people, not poets, but obviously I'm disappointed with the result. — Mick McCarthy
Poetry transcends the nation-state. Poetry transcends government. It brings the traditional concept of power to its knees. I have always believed poetry to be an… — Sam Hamill
In Náhuatl, the language of the Aztec world, one key word for poet was 'tlamatine,' meaning 'the one who knows,' or 'he who knows something.'… — Edward Hirsch
When I say God it is poetry and not theology. Nothing that any theologian has written about God has helped me much, but everything the… — John Haynes Holmes
Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers. — Henry R. Luce
Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age. — Dave Beard
The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters — Thomas Cahill

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