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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author

Poet

"Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away."

Poet Drink All Things

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Benjamin Franklin Inventor, Statesman, Author

Poet

"I know as well as thee that I am no poet born It is a trade, I never learnt nor indeed could learn If I make verses-'tis in spite Of nature and my stars I write."

Writing Stars Poet

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Adrienne Rich Poet, Essayist, Feminist

Poet

"As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry."

Young Poet Dogma

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David Bowie Musician, Actor

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"I think Lindsay Kemp really introduced me to the work of Jean Genet, and through that, I kind of kept re-educating myself about other prose writers and poets."

Thinking Kind Poet

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Charles Churchill Poet, Playwright

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"Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse."

Poet Prose Rapture

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Chinua Achebe Novelist, Poet

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"The emperor would prefer the poet to keep away from politics, the emperor's domain, so that he can manage things the way he likes."

Way Poet Likes

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Clive James Writer

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"The great thing about living until you get a bit older if you are a writer, and especially a poet, is that you have more life to reflect on. And I think that if I am better now - and I think that I am probably better than I was - is because that I simply have more to think about, more to get under control, more to understand."

Thinking Poet Great Things

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Charles Bukowski Poet, Novelist

Poet

"but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry."

Made Poet Legs

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Charles Bukowski Poet, Novelist

Poet

"Figuring the average poet starts at 16, I am 23."

Average Poet

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Aldous Huxley Novelist, Essayist

Poet

"The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature."

Poet Human Nature Hyde

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Ali Liebegott Poet, Writer

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"As a poet and writer in general I feel very grateful that I can just make a chapbook and that we don't have the expenses of filmmakers."

Grateful Poet Filmmaker

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Alison Hawthorne Deming Poet

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"For the poets, my hope is that they will, quite simply, feel the obligation to be really informed about the situation in which we find ourselves, in terms of our imperiled planet. You should inform yourself so deeply that it becomes part of your nature, part of your voice."

Voice Should Poet

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Allen Tate Poet, Critic

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"Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a ham actor, not a poet."

Actors Poet Ham

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Allen Tate Poet, Critic

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"Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results."

Men Way Poet

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Amy Lowell Poet

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"Only those of our poets who kept solidly to the Shakespearean tradition achieved any measure of success. But Keats was the last great exponent of that tradition, and we all know how thin, how lacking in charm, the copies of Keats have become."

Lasts Poet Tradition

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Anais Nin Writer, Diarist

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"Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as they are being discovered."

Science Poet Scientist

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Anne Stevenson Poet, Writer

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"I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson."

Thinking Should Poet

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Alice Walker Novelist, Poet

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"Drew Dellinger is a deep and courageous poet. How lucky we are!"

Lucky Poet Courageous

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Wallace Stevens Poet

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"The poet represents the mind in the act of defending us against itself."

Mind Poet

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Wallace Stevens Poet

Poet

"A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words."

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