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- Frost is the most sophisticated of poets.
- But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A…
- If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.
- The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic…
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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
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration… — Margaret Atwood
- Always be a poet, even in prose. — Charles Baudelaire
- Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. — Samuel Beckett
- On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as… — Eric Burdon
- 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