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William Blake Poet, Painter

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"One Power alone makes a Poet: Imagination. The Divine Vision."

Imagination Vision Poet

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Sigmund Freud Neurologist, Psychoanalyst

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"Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me."

Has Beens Poet Poetry By Famous Poets

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Jim Harrison Novelist, Poet

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"A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed."

Stories Truth Is Poet

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Jorge Luis Borges Writer, Poet

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"Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark."

Dark Poet Blind

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Charlie Chaplin Actor, Filmmaker, Composer

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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."

Beauty Sadness Poet

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Walt Whitman Poet, Essayist

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"The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it."

Country Poet Leaves Of Grass

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Langston Hughes Poet, Novelist

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"Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection."

Poet Resurrection Graveyard

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Robert Lowell Poet

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"Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did."

Attention Poet Modern

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Marlon Brando Actor, Director

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"An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer."

Actors Poet Entertainers

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Sappho Poet

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"To me the Muses truly gave / An envied and a happy lot: / E'en when I lie within the grave, / I cannot, shall not, be forgot."

Lying Poet Muse

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Sylvia Plath Poet, Novelist

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"Oh what a poet I will flay myself into."

Poet

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Sylvia Plath Poet, Novelist

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"I'm about fifty years behind as far as my preferences go and I must say that the poets who excite me most are the Americans. There are very few contemporary English poets that I admire."

Years Poet Fifty

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Langston Hughes Poet, Novelist

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"Hang yourself, poet, in your own words. Otherwise, you are dead."

Poet

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti Artist

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"I am not as these are, the poet saithIn youth's pride, and the painter, among menAt bay, where never pencil comes nor pem"

Pride Youth Poet

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William Butler Yeats Poet, Playwright

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"Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk"

Poet Painter Shirk

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J. D. Salinger Novelist, Short Story Writer

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"The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it."

Choices Poet Materials

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poet, Novelist

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"There's nothing great Nor small, has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not be thrown out by the matin's bell."

Voice Poet Bells

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Samuel Beckett Playwright, Novelist

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"Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity."

Humanity Poet Philosopher

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Fernando Pessoa Poet, Writer

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"To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet."

Opinion Poet Book Of Disquiet

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e. e. cummings Poet, Painter

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"a poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination; to report on the electrifying experience of being"

Movement Poet Fascination

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