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