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You, Reader I wonder how you are going to feel when you find out that I wrote this instead of you, that it was I who got up early to sit in the itchen and mention with a pen the rain-soaked windows, the ivy wallpaper, and the goldfish circling in its bowl. Go ahead and turn aside, bite your lip and tear out the page, but, listen– it was just a matter of time before one of us happened to notice the unlit candles and the clock humming on the wall. Plus, nothing happened that morning– a song on the radio, a car whistling along the road outside– and I was only thinking about the shakers of salt and pepper that were standing side by side on a place mat. I wondered if they had become friends after all these years or if they were still strangers to one another like you and I who manage to be known and unknown to each other at the same time– me at this table with a bowl of pears, you leaning in a doorway somewhere near some blue hydrageas, reading this.

You're back where you swore yourself you wouldn't be The familiar shackles you can't tell from your own skin Your head's under water when you learned to swim On a road to hell, congratulations, you're free...

Your eyes are like heavy rain falling from pregnant clouds. With one glance, you washed away the poems I chalked on the ground and drowned all my beliefs. Now, I only scribble your name and believe in your truth. I know nothing but you.

Your flesh is not a reflection of your soul. So when you look in the mirror, remember that your light outshines your flaws.

Your love is like star sky showers and magenta unicorns.

Your world is as big as you make it. I know, for I used to abide In the narrowest nest in a corner, My wings pressing close to my side.

YOUR WORDS ARE MADE OF THE AIR I BREATHE.

You should be more careful when you move, my dear what with you... spilling moonlight into my poem, with a mere flick of your hand.

You should have been a poet." "I was." (Gesture towards his rags.) "Isn't that obvious?

A beautiful woman is a practical poet.

Academia is a graveyard of poets.

Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so easy for a serious poet to meet with the great and the admirable; but life every where furnishes an accurate observer with the ridiculous.

About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives.

A boy in love is not mainly a calf but a poet.

A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager.

Advice to Young Poets Never pretend to be a unicorn by sticking a plunger on your head.

A friend of mine, a poet, Rebecca Wolff recently said to me, "You know, your stories are really voice-driven," and I guess I knew that already, but it's so true that I can't get something going unless I can hear the voice.

A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

A great poet does not express his or her self; he expresses all of our selves.

Ah, if I were dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs!

Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!

A life-whether seamstress or poet, farmer or king-is measured not by length, but by the worth of its deeds, and the power of its dreams.

Allen Ginsberg is a tremendous warrior as time goes by. He's a warrior first and a poet second.

All great poets have been men of great knowledge.

All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me.... If I must not, because of my sex, have this freedom... I lay down my quill and you shall hear no more of me.

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

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'

All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.

All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications. Tramp poets, there you go, a new label for those with unstable allegiances.

Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!

A cool & diversified version of a mix tape. The BreakBeat Poets is a thorough and complete summation of Golden Era writers who continue to build the scene of literary and performance poetry.

Although all poets aspire to be birds, no bird aspires to be a poet.

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns.

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.

A man--poet, prophet, or whatever be may be--readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered.

A muse is something that serves a poet well early in his or her career. In later years one writers out of one's own driven inspiration. One learns to find inspiration rather than waiting for it to come for a visit. I can find inspiration almost anywhere.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

And If the surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies are like verses into the fashioning of which you have poured your soul.

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

An occasion, catalyst, or tripwire?permits the poet to reach into herself and haul up whatever nugget of the human condition distracts her at the moment, something that can't be reached in any other way.

An old poet ought never to be caught with his technique showing.

An undevout poet is an impossibility.

Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.

A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, the reader.

American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.

Amy Winehouse and Paul Weller are examples of poets, I think.

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.