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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist

Poet

"I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets."

Writing Poet Pardon

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist

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"Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets."

Saint Poet Sage

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Maria Teresa Horta Poet

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"I think the obligation of a poet is not to be in an ivory tower; it is not to be isolated but to be among people."

People Thinking Poet

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Henri Cole Poet

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"In truth, I'm still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. I'd rather say, I make poems."

Stills Poet Embarrassed

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Gustave Flaubert Novelist

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"The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family."

Literature Poet Priests

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Leonard Cohen Singer-Songwriter

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"I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against."

Knows Poet Minors

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher

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"Why should not a poet's cat be winged as well as his horse?"

Horse Cat Poet

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher

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"The poet is blithe and cheery ever, and as well as nature."

Poetry Poet Blithe

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher

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"We are all of us Apollos serving some Admetus."

Poetry Poet Labor

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher

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"As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis."

Long Poetry Poet

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher

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"Every poet has trembled on the verge of science."

Poet Verge

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Henry Ford Industrialist

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"Political parties are like poets, born, not made."

Political Party Poet

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Lewis Carroll Author, Mathematician

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"Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool."

School Fool Poet

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James Russell Lowell Poet, Essayist

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"A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity"

Needs Age Poet

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer

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"The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes."

Spirit Poet Spectators

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer

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"The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality."

Reality Poet Creation

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist

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"Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one."

Writing Poet Conscious

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Jay-Z Rapper, Businessman

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"A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level."

Levels Poet Missions

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist

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"Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves."

Poet Produce Fancy

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist

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"The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal."

Should Sound Poet

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