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I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.


Bob Dylan
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Auden is a poet - no, the poet - of unembarrassed intellect. Ideas are his emotions, emotions are his ideas.
Cynthia Ozick
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The poet is like the earth's shadow. The sun moves, and the poet writes something down.


Eileen Myles
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The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.


Edward Dahlberg
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All a poet can do today is warn.


Wilfred Owen
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The poet is the priest of the invisible.


Wallace Stevens
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The poet is a madman lost in adventure.


Paul Verlaine
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The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world.


Seamus Heaney
Tags: World Side Poet
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The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.


Paul Engle
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An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.


Marlon Brando
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A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.


Salvatore Quasimodo
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I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.


Wislawa Szymborska
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We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago.


Richard J. Daley
Tags: Us Proud Poet
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The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.


William Shakespeare
I'm a political poet - let us say a 'human' poet, a poet that's concerned with the plight of people who suffer. If words can be of assistance, then that's what I'm going to use.
Juan Felipe Herrera
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A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.


George Henry Lewes
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.


Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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You don't become a poet if you want to make any money.


Claudia Rankine
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Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.


John Crowe Ransom
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The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.


Simone Veil
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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry.


Muhammad Iqbal
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I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.


Yehuda Amichai
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Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I've always made people wary. First they called me a rock poet. Then I was a poet that dabbled in rock. Then I was a rock person who dabbled in art.
Patti Smith
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When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.


John Drinkwater
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More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
John Burroughs
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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
John Keats
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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.


Thomas Babington Macaulay
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.


Orson Welles
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In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.


Kenneth Branagh
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If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.


Maya Angelou
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Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.


Ernest Hemingway
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The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.


Gustave Flaubert
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When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.
Franz Grillparzer
What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.
Barbara Kingsolver
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But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
Amelia Barr
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
Erica Jong
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The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.
Lafcadio Hearn
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I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.
Howard Nemerov
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
Randall Jarrell
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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Khalil Gibran
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If, at a party, I say I'm a poet, people have a hard time responding, almost as if I'd said I'm a priest.
Tobias Hill
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I always turn to Frank O'Hara and David Berman's 'Actual Air,' which came out in 1999. He's a poet I haven't tired of.
Terrance Hayes
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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
A. R. Ammons
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I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about this work of mine.'
Helen Vendler
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I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.
Harold Bloom
There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
James Thurber
A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
G. H. Hardy
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To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.
John Drinkwater
A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
G. H. Hardy
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