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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

Poet

"The engineers of the future will be poets."

Inspirational Inspiring Poet

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Virginia Woolf Novelist

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"Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet."

Fall Poet Toss

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Vladimir Nabokov Novelist

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"a person hoping to become a poet must have the capacity of thinking of several things at a time."

Thinking Poet Capacity

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Socrates Philosopher

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"It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His."

Mind Might Poet

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Socrates Philosopher

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"Not by wisdom do they [poets] make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles."

Inspiration Poet Oracles

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J. D. Salinger Novelist, Short Story Writer

Poet

"Poets are always taking the weather so personally."

Clever Weather Poet

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Neil Gaiman Author

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"Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?"

Advice Poet Sensible

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Marcus Tullius Cicero Politician, Philosopher, Orator

Poet

"There were poets before Homer."

Poetry Poet

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist

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"What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime."

Poet Sublime Omission

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George Santayana Philosopher, Poet

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"All language is rhetorical, and even the senses are poets."

Language Poet Rhetorical

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Gore Vidal Writer, Essayist, Playwright

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"Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems to be have been discretion) made it."

Poet Novelists Imitation

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher

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"The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them."

Poetry Poet Mankind

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poet, Educator

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"For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one."

Understanding Next Poet

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer

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"The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk."

Poet Rhythm Carriages

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Khalil Gibran Poet, Writer

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"I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes."

Life Poet Prose

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Jean Cocteau Poet, Novelist, Playwright

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"There are poets and there are grownups."

Poetry Poet Grownups

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Jean Toomer Poet, Novelist

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"I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become."

Might Poet Poetic

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Jorge Luis Borges Writer, Poet

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"A . . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor."

Poet Inventor

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Joseph Joubert Essayist, Moralist

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"Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence."

Silence Poet Fingers

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John Keats Poet

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"A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility."

Love Poet Metaphysical

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