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Poets that lasting marble seek, Must come in Latin or in Greek.
In love, a verse of Mimnermus has more power than one of Homer.
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
Drew Dellinger is a deep and courageous poet. How lucky we are!
The poet's labors are a work of joy, and require peace of mind.
An old poet ought never to be caught with his technique showing.
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.
A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter.
Who can ever say the perfect thing to the poet about his poetry?
I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity
The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.
Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.
Our goal is to publish African poets in as many ways as possible.
Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.
I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
Tinted Distances is the achievement of a wise and discerning poet.
God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.
A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke
A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen.
The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper
By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.
Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk
The first time I ever cried in a movie was in Dead Poet's Society.
The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.
How does the artist function as poet-slash-witness-slash-trickster?
I secretly assumed, as poets do, The duty on me to define the moon.
Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.
I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.
A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.
A poet is one who can call forth the good latent in the human beast.
Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.
- How is he in bed? Gladiator or poet? - Hmmm... A poetic gladiator.
Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets.
If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.
I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful.
I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.