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There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.
Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few.
The poet, like the lover, is a menace on the assembly line.
Bob Dylan truly is a poet whose song is part of the poetry.
I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.
Who could imagine a poet wearing anything other than black?
As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words.
In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet
A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.
Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.
When the exceptional historian comes along, you have a poet.
The poet is he who inspires, rather than he who is inspired.
Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.
I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.
Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.
The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision.
Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness.
A poet cannot be a Party member ... without paying the price.
Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.
...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.
…only a poet could frame a language that could frame a world.
Anyone who holds a pen these days thinks he or she is a poet.
My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
Old empires always appeal to modern poets more than new ones.
Painters and poets have equal license in regard to everything.
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
My message is not wholly understood; only poets understand it.
Poets and monks... We're both sort of peripheral to the world.
It's just that very few poets disturb the peace to any degree.
You have to be a poet to know how to write a song with lyrics.
a poet will even face death when he sees his people oppressed.
whether they write poems or don't write poems, poets are best.
Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.
They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.
Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.
The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.
A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.
A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
And I'll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.
Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.
I have written a raucous valentine to a poet's dream and agony.
I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.
The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes...