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William C. Bryant Poet

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"All great poets have been men of great knowledge."

Men Poet Great Knowledge

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William C. Bryant Poet

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"[Thanatopsis] was written in 1817, when Bryant was 23. Had he died then, the world would have thought it had lost a great poet. But he lived on."

World Lost Poet

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Will Smith Actor, Producer, Rapper

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"Thomas Jefferson was a real poet. He was slick with that 'pursuit' of happiness because the 'pursuit' puts it back on you."

Real Poet Pursuit Of Happiness

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Umberto Eco Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic

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"All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them."

Writing Poet Publish

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Umberto Eco Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic

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"The poets did not win; the philosophers surrendered."

Winning Poet Philosopher

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Umberto Eco Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic

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"One can be a great poet and be politically stupid."

Stupid Poet Great Poet

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Umberto Eco Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic

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"Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets."

Writing Poet Elizabethan

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Ursula K. Le Guin Author, Poet, Essayist

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"When you work in form, be it a sonnet or villanelle or whatever, the form is there and you have to fill it. And you have to find how to make that form say what you want to say. But what you find, always--I think any poet who's worked in form will agree with me--is that the form leads you to what you want to say."

Thinking Want Poet

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Ursula K. Le Guin Author, Poet, Essayist

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"Even a poet cannot get everything right."

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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright

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"The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes."

Poet Mature Immature

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Rainn Wilson Actor

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"My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet."

Names Dad Poet

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Victor Hugo Novelist, Poet

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"A poet is a world enclosed in a man."

Men World Poet

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

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"A beautiful woman is a practical poet."

Beautiful Women Poet

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

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"Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet."

Saint Poet Lows

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

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"The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly."

Knows Speak Poet

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

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"A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn."

Made Sky Poet

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

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"We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation with his eyes, andfind a new and fervent sense; as a passage from one of the poets, well recited, borrows new interest from the rendering. As the journals say, "the italics are ours."

Eye Genius Poet

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

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"The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare."

Poet Fabric Injury

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

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"Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet."

Purpose Poet Defeat

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

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"...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor."

Writing Poet Labor

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