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Poets Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot
- Good poets borrow, great poets steal
- Bad poets imitate, good poets steal.
- I think it was rather an advantage not having any living poets in England or America in whom one took any particular interest. I don't…
- Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
- Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to…
- The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
- No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead…
- One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature…
- Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.
- When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.
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- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
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- 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
- The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently. — Jean Cocteau
- Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and… — Leonard Cohen
- Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an… — Lascelles Abercrombie