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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal
William James
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A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
Samuel McChord Crothers
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A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
W.H. Auden
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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.
Kahlil Gibran
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A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
Samuel McChord Crothers
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet`s abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.
Paul Engle
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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
Wallace Stevens
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The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
Bill Lovejoy
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The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
William Shakespeare
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"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.
Andre Gide
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A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
Rene Char
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A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.
Kahlil Gibran
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To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
Robert Frost
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The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
Leonardo da Vinci
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God is the perfect poet.
Robert Browning
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A poet`s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Salman Rushdie
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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
Plato
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all, and thus would have been at the mercy of the Prefect
Edgar Allan Poe
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A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
Jean Cocteau
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Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
Jean Cocteau
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You don`t have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
John Ciardi
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The poet doesn`t invent. He listens.
Jean Cocteau
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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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Always be a poet, even in prose.
Charles Baudelaire
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde
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What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or, if he is merely a boxer, only his muscle? On the contrary, he is at the same ...
Pablo Picasso
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But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.
John Updike
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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
Adrien Wing
