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The attention one gets from being a poet isnt great.
Man is the poet who kills, Woman the angel who eats.
Nature, like a true poet, abhors abrupt transitions.
I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet.
The poets did not win; the philosophers surrendered.
And they were all, when their souls grew warm, poets.
I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
I started earning a living as a poet rather early on.
To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.
But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.
Ah, if I were dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs!
The poet nothing affirmeth and therefore never lieth.
We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.
None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.
A . . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
nobody alive or dead deserves to be called a poetess.
Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.
Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.
I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it
Are not poets men who fulfill their hopes prematurely?
We photographers are poets in the language of symbols.
I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.
And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.
The New York School poets are my godfathers creatively.
Above all, we ask the poet to teach us a way of seeing.
No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.
The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.
All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.
An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.
We are proud to have with us the poet lariat of Chicago.
I earn more than I thought I would when I became a poet.
The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes.
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.
You will be a poet because you will always be humiliated.
Maybe the poets are right. Maybe love is the only answer.
I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.
Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.
When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
I think it's hard to be taken seriously as a poet, period.
Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.
Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.
All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets.
I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death.
The poet is blithe and cheery ever, and as well as nature.
I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word.
Why should not a poet's cat be winged as well as his horse?
You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world.