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Poets Quotes by Alexander Pope
- Grave authors say, and witty poets sing, That honest wedlock is a glorious thing.
- Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
- Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments…
- While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.
- Such were the notes thy once loved poet sung, Till death untimely stopped his tuneful tongue
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- Always be a poet, even in prose. — Charles Baudelaire
- Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. — Samuel Beckett
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- Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world. — Miguel de Cervantes