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Lester Cole Screenwriter

Poet

"I am the scroll of the poet behind which samurai swords are being sharpened."

Poet Deception Samurai

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Marlon Brando Actor, Director

Poet

"Bertolucci is extraordinary in his ability to perceive, he's a poet...he is very easy to work for."

Easy Poet Ability

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Poet

"Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious."

Poet Superstitions Practicals

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Muhammad Iqbal Poet, Philosopher

Poet

"I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry."

Poet Interest Poetic

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Pablo Picasso Painter, Sculptor

Poet

"Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst."

Heart Today Poet

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Plato Philosopher

Poet

"Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom."

Matter Errors Poet

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Plato Philosopher

Poet

"The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage."

Poet Divinity Bondage

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Carolina Maria de Jesus Writer

Poet

"a poet will even face death when he sees his people oppressed."

People Faces Poet

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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter

Poet

"I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet."

Thinking Poet Poetic

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Allen Tate Poet, Critic

Poet

"In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem."

Talking Knowing Poet

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Anne Sexton Poet, Author

Poet

"Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery."

Heart Poet Imagery

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Antonin Artaud Playwright, Actor, Theorist

Poet

"Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others."

Way Reading Poet

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August Wilson Playwright, Screenwriter

Poet

"I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet."

Firsts Poet Height

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Wallace Stevens Poet

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"The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence."

Philosophy Poet Philosopher

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

Poet

"Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language."

Language Trouble Poet

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Virginia Woolf Novelist

Poet

"Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time."

Poetry Poet Beacons Of Light

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Virginia Woolf Novelist

Poet

"And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover."

Wish Poet Lovers

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Richard Thompson Musician

Poet

"There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now."

Wish Poet Too Late

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Robert Frost Poet

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"A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair."

Love Poet Affair

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Margaret Fuller Transcendentalist, Writer

Poet

"The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three."

Three Poet Philosopher

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