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The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
The void yields up nothing. You have to be a great poet to make it ring.
Every original poet has a new insight, or rather introduces a new power.
All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!
What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.
Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay.
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Every good poem asks a question, and every good poet asks every question.
I get a huge energy transfusion from listening to poets read their works.
Be yourself. Don't imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.
the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.
To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.
The poets get a quizzical ahem. They reflect time, I am the very ticking.
I want to be a poet. I don't want to talk about genies in bottles anymore.
I am a revolutionary, so my son can be a farmer, so his son can be a poet.
God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
Time spent with poets is never wasted.
A beautiful woman is a practical poet.
Nature, like a true poet, abhors abrupt transitions.
Poets wish to profit or to please.
A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.
In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet
We are born poets. we become orators.
To a poet nothing can be useless.
Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.
Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.
A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.
The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity
There are poets and there are grownups.
Bad poets imitate, good poets steal.
Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.
At the touch of love, everyone is a poet.
A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of.
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
A poet is a time mechanic not an embalmer.
A . . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.
Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk
Our goal is to publish African poets in as many ways as possible.
Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.
Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.
Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.