"If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets." — Peter Davison

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• Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them… — 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… — Paul Auster
• Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid… — 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… — Eric Burdon
• Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in… — 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… — Leonard Cohen
• Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production… — Lascelles Abercrombie

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