Poets Quotes

Poets Quotes

Alphonse Daudet

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Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.

Richard Wilbur

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To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men.

Dame Edith Sitwell

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The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of "a moment of their other lives"-a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.

Henry David Thoreau

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The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them

Edmund Waller

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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot

Hannah Arendt

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience; which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one

Ben Jonson

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

A good poet's made as well as born.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, ...

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