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Man may be considered as a superior species of animal who produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.: Hippilyte Taine
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.: Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.: Karl Shapiro
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.: Alfred De Musset
Inside every man there is a poet who died young.: Stefan Kanfer
Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or man.: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.: William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

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