Their Poems Quotes
9 quotes by 9 authors
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I had been dreaming a complicated dream about helping poets revise their poems, so that each ending would open like a flower. I was not…
— Diane Wakoski
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I soon realized that poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who…
— Socrates
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The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.
— Antonio Machado
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The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it…
— Wendy Cope
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...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you, is a cold…
— Stanley Kunitz
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If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing…
— Walker Percy
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I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set upon you to…
— Heinrich Heine
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It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems…
— Randall Jarrell
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The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that…
— Lactantius
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