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- 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)
- Most joyful the Poet be;
It is through him that all men see. - William E. Channing
- The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.
- Berenson
- Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.
- Jean Anouilh (1910 - 1987)
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