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Claude Monet Painter

Poet

"No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet."

Poet Painter Great Poet

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Boris Pasternak Poet, Novelist

Poet

"No bad man can be a good poet."

Men Poet Bad Man

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Walt Whitman Poet, Essayist

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"I am the poet of the woman the same as the man, And I say it is as great to be a woman as to be a man, And I say there is nothing greater than the mother of a man."

Men Mother Poet

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Virginia Woolf Novelist

Poet

"How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before biographers."

Problem Poet Lays

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Ray Bradbury Author

Poet

"And they were all, when their souls grew warm, poets."

Soul Poet Relaxation

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John Adams Founding Father, Politician

Poet

"I am a revolutionary, so my son can be a farmer, so his son can be a poet."

Son Poet Revolutionary

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Joyce Carol Oates Author, Poet

Poet

"[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness."

Solitude Poet Supreme

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Mikhail Bulgakov Novelist, Playwright

Poet

"It must be added that from his first words the foreigner made a repellent impression on the poet, but Berlioz rather liked him - that is, not liked but . . . how to put it . . . was interested, or whatever."

Firsts Poet Berlioz

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar

Poet

"Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes."

Way Two Poet

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar

Poet

"Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme."

Poet Conscious Invention

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Patti Smith Musician

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"That's what artists do, that's what poets do - we all do it. We start with something, and sometimes we destroy everything that we've made in order to get to the core place where we started from."

Artist Sometimes Poet

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Patti Smith Musician

Poet

"I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work."

Long Artist Poet

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Patti Smith Musician

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"I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something."

Long Would Be Poet

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Percy Bysshe Shelley Poet

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"Poet's food is love and fame."

Poet Fame

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Plato Philosopher

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"For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless he knows what he means?"

Mean Mind Poet

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Plato Philosopher

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"But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?"

Heaven Poet

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Petrarch Poet, Scholar

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"When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified."

Cat Poet Died

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Edmund Wilson Literary Critic and Essayist

Poet

"I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind."

Kind Poet

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Ernest Hemingway Novelist

Poet

"For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."

Poet Bottles Milk

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Carl Sandburg Poet, Biographer

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"The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help."

Helping Poet Scholar

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