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Valentine's Day is the poet's holiday.
I'd better be a poet Or lay down dead.
To love is to transform; to be a poet.
One must love a poet on its own terms.
A poet's first contract is with truth.
And mighty poets in their misery dead.
[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.
The poet is a madman lost in adventure.
Every man is a poet when he is in love.
Memory is each man's poet-in-residence.
Keelhaul the poets in the vestry chairs.
The poet is the priest of the invisible.
I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.
I was a piano player before I was a poet.
I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.
The poet is stepping out of the airplane.
I’m not a poet—I’m a drifter in the arts.
The poet is the complete lover of mankind.
How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.
What a comfort to know that God is a poet.
Poetics is a science for stammering poets.
The engineers of the future will be poets.
Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
I think being a poet, period, is isolating.
A poet is a good citizen turned inside out.
You are the poet, you walk inside my dreams.
This poet is a griot in search of a village.
A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.
Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.
'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
Dan Gerber is one of our finest living poets.
Poets play with words to keep themselves sane
I warmly recommend to you the films of poets.
Not being a poet, I prize truth above beauty.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's.
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
We are all of us Apollos serving some Admetus.
Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.
A boy in love is not mainly a calf but a poet.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet.
Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
Novelists want to flood, poets want to distill.
Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.
Figuring the average poet starts at 16, I am 23.
For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.
I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!
If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved.