Poet

Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

Poet

"The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances."

Individual Poet Statistics

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

Poet

"A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn."

Writing Style Poet

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

Poet

"[The poet] must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place."

Writing Generations Poet

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Virginia Woolf Novelist

Poet

"The poet is always our contemporary."

Poet Contemporary

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Vladimir Nabokov Novelist

Poet

"while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time."

Space Poet Scientist

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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist

Poet

"Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets."

Stills Poet Agents

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Thomas Carlyle Essayist, Historian, Novelist

Poet

"He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet."

Doe Names Poet

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Richard Hugo Poet, Author

Poet

"A poet is seldom hard up for advice. The worst part of it all is that sometimes the advice is coming from other poets, and they ought to know better."

Sometimes Advice Poet

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Shirley Geok-lin Lim Poet, Novelist

Poet

"Signs of a maddening system of writing and counting that calibrates the values of something the poet does not yet know. Praxis is therefore poetics."

Writing Doe Poet

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Shirley Geok-lin Lim Poet, Novelist

Poet

"I was nine when I first knew I wanted to be a writer, in particular, a poet."

Firsts Poet Nine

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Shirley Geok-lin Lim Poet, Novelist

Poet

"Poetics is a science for stammering poets."

Poet Stammering

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Simone Muench Poet

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"I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations."

Writing Ideas Poet

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Soren Kierkegaard Philosopher, Theologian

Poet

"I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men."

Men Poet Misunderstood

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Robert Fitzgerald Poet

Poet

"In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not?"

Way Poet Over You

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Robert Frost Poet

Poet

"Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of."

Sometimes Wonder Poet

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Robert Frost Poet

Poet

"Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man."

Men Hours Poet

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Robert Frost Poet

Poet

"I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems."

Persons Poet

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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist

Poet

"...to be a poet, requires a mythology of the self. The self described is the poet self, to which the daily self (and others) are often ruthlessly sacrificed. The poet self is the real self, the other one is the carrier; and when the poet self dies, the person dies."

Real Self Poet

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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist

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"The unit of the poet is the word, the unit of the prose writer is the sentence."

Poet Prose Units

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Roy Fuller Poet, Novelist

Poet

"The poets get a quizzical ahem. They reflect time, I am the very ticking."

Time Poet

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