Anne Sexton
Poet, Author
"Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance."
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Poet
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
"Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child."
Aristotle
Philosopher
"Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts."
Thomas Cole
Painter
"To walk with nature as a poet is the necessary condition of a perfect artist."
Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied."
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"Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close."
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"He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master."
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"If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed."
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"At the touch of love, everyone is a poet."
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"The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet."
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"What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you."
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"I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers."
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"You must continue. Poets are the ones who change the world."
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"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."
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"I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival."
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"Poets are simply those who have made a profession and a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss."
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"With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration."
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"I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words."
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"When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one laid down a course of action for us, and our friends the poets followed our endeavour attentively but they never dictated it to us."
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"Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them."
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"One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision."
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"Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me."
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"A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed."
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"Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark."
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"Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels."
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