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Emily Dickinson Poet

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"The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on."

Light Goes On Poet

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Umberto Eco Writer, Philosopher, Literary Critic

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"When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love."

Writing Remember Poet

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

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"The sensual man conforms thoughts to things; the poet conforms things to his thoughts."

Men Poet Sensual

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John Muir Naturalist, Writer

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"Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go; for the mountains are fountains – beginning places, however related to sources beyond mortal ken."

Mountain Poet Fountain

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Bruce Springsteen Musician, Singer-songwriter

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"The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be."

Writing Poet

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Socrates Philosopher

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"The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods."

Poet Interpreter

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Octavio Paz Poet, Essayist

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"Poet: gardener of epitaphs."

Art Design Poet

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William Butler Yeats Poet, Playwright

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"A poet is a good citizen turned inside out."

Citizens Poet Good Citizen

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E. M. Forster Novelist, Essayist

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"We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet."

Poverty Poor Poet

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B. F. Skinner Psychologist, Behaviorist

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"Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?"

Doe Environmental Poet

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Dante Alighieri Poet, Philosopher

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"Honor is the greatest poet."

Honor Poet

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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright

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"Good poets borrow, great poets steal"

Poet Stealing Great Poet

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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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Frank Lloyd Wright Architect

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"Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet."

Poet Architecture Falling Water

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poet, Educator

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"All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal."

Country Poet Great Poet

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Jean Cocteau Poet, Novelist, Playwright

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"A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter."

Poet Photographer Painter

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Jules Verne Novelist, Playwright

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"Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another."

Poet

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Martin Heidegger Philosopher

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"The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being."

Poet Changed Vanguard

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W. Somerset Maugham Novelist, Playwright

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"The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes..."

Steps Poet Prose

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Woody Allen Director, Actor, Writer

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"Maybe the poets are right. Maybe love is the only answer."

Love Is Answers Poet

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