Poet

Henry Miller Novelist, Essayist

Poet

"We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there."

Kings Musician Poet

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Lewis Hyde Author

Poet

"An anaesthetic is a poet-killer."

Poet Killers

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E. M. Forster Novelist, Essayist

Poet

"I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal."

Love Is Poet Romantic

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Plato Philosopher

Poet

"Don't ask a poet to explain himself. He cannot."

Poet Asks

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Ezra Pound Poet, Critic

Poet

"Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets."

Poet Not Interested

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Eminem Rapper, songwriter, record producer

Poet

"See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare."

Poet Modern Modern Day

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Dorothy Parker Poet, Writer, Critic

Poet

"And I'll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds."

Poet Chasing

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Charles Webster Hawthorne Painter, Educator

Poet

"We must all teach ourselves to be fine, to be poets."

Teaching Poet Fine

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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter

Poet

"I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word."

Poet Trapeze Trapeze Artists

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Anais Nin Writer, Diarist

Poet

"You are the poet, you walk inside my dreams."

Dream Poet Walks

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Anne Stevenson Poet, Writer

Poet

"Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry."

Should Criticism Poet

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Alice Walker Novelist, Poet

Poet

"I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels."

Writing Poet Novel

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William Butler Yeats Poet, Playwright

Poet

"Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast; he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete."

Ideas Poet Breakfast

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William Butler Yeats Poet, Playwright

Poet

"If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility."

Limits Poetry Poet

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William Wordsworth Poet

Poet

"We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness."

Youth Poet Madness

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William Wordsworth Poet

Poet

"And mighty poets in their misery dead."

Death Poet Misery

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Wilferd Peterson Author and Speaker

Poet

"Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets."

Book Poet Philosopher

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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright

Poet

"I was too slow a mover to be a boxer. It was much easier to be a poet."

Easier Poet Boxers

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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright

Poet

"Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility."

Thinking Rose Poet

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Poet

"The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both."

Poet Philosopher Aim

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