Poet

Lloyd Alexander Author

Poet

"You have a point," said Fronto, "and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic."

Poet Logic Bows

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Percy Bysshe Shelley Poet

Poet

"In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet"

Literature Poet Infancy Is

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Edgar Allan Poe Poet, Writer

Poet

"As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all."

Reason Poet Mathematician

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Cornel West Philosopher

Poet

"For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo."

Musician Poet Tone

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Allen Ginsberg Poet, Activist

Poet

"Poets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels."

Eye Angel Poet

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Anne Carson Poet

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"He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet."

Difficult Poet Gertrude

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Anne Sexton Poet, Author

Poet

"One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is "Whatever you do, don't be boring.""

Secret Poet Boring

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William Watson Poet

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"God, eldest of Poets."

Poet Eldest

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T. S. Eliot Poet, Playwright

Poet

"Bad poets imitate, good poets steal."

Poet Stealing

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Poet

"The sign and credentials of the poet are that he announces that which no man foretold"

Men Poet Credentials

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

Poet

"To a poet nothing can be useless."

Poet Useless

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic

Poet

"Was ever poet so trusted before?"

Poet Trust Being Trusted

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Tom Waits Singer-songwriter, Actor

Poet

"I don't like the stigma that comes with being called a poet . . . So I call what I'm doing an improvisational adventure or an inebriational travelogue."

Adventure Poet Stigma

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Robert Frost Poet

Poet

"A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true." - W. H. Auden "A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words."

Believe Sound Poet

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Sylvia Plath Poet, Novelist

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"As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical."

Air Poet Teach

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Harriet Monroe Poet, Editor

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"The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have else they will never have better."

People Poet Hearing

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George Orwell Writer, Journalist

Poet

"Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant."

Poet Pedants Joyce

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Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher, Writer

Poet

"Take [Stéphane] Mallarme. I hold him to be the greatest of French poets, and I have taken some time to understand him !"

Taken Poet

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Poet

"We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings."

Moral Poet Scientist

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Dylan Thomas Poet, Writer

Poet

"[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet."

Poet Freak Users

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