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Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.
Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence.
I grew up listening to the 60's and 70's... storytellers and poets.
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
Poets have a sense of place. My place was London, and I sang about it.
Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.
Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.
Poets have always celebrated grief as one of the deepest human emotions.
American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.
Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.
All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.
I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.
Female poets in the 17th century had these very confined, restricted lives.
The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
One of my very favourite poets was a Massachusetts poet named Robert Lowell.
Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.
Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.
I have never felt inhibited in trying to write as well as the greatest English poets.
The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
The public is probably more suspicious of poets than women, and maybe for good reason.
People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.
Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.
The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones.
Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.
Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.
Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it.
Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent.
Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.
I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.
I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.
America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.