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    The eye is the notebook of the poet.

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    The fellow is either a madman or a poet.

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    The first time I ever cried in a movie was in Dead Poet's Society.

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    The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

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    The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality.

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    The greatest tragedy that can befall a poet is to be praised by being misunderstood.

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    The great thing about living until you get a bit older if you are a writer, and especially a poet, is that you have more life to reflect on. And I think that if I am better now - and I think that I am probably better than I was - is because that I simply have more to think about, more to get under control, more to understand.

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    The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper

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    The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes.

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    The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it.

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    The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.

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    The inimitable writer Maxine Hong Kingston published a book in 2002 with the title To Be the Poet. However, in contrast to the transformatory distinctions Kingston makes between the conditions of being a prose writer and "the poet," my multigenre impulses incline me to a broader transformation: to be a writer.

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    The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters

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    The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.

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    The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst.

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    The logic of the poet - that is, the logic of language or the experience itself - develops the way a living organism grows: it spreads out towards what it loves, and is heliotropic, like a plant.

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    The man is either mad or his is making verses. [Lat., Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.]

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    The nearest we approach God ...is as creative beings. The poet, by echoing the primary imagination, recreates. Through his work he forces those who read him to do the same, thus bringing them... nearer to the actual being of God as displayed in action.

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    The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine mission.

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    The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.

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

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    Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.

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    Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice.

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    Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.

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    The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn.

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    The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.

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    The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

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    The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

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    The poet is a master of language, the schizophrenic is a slave to it.

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    The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.

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    The poet is the one who breaks through our habits.

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    the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.

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

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    The Poet in his ArtMust intimate the whole, and say the smallest part.

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    The poet is always our contemporary.

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    The poet is blithe and cheery ever, and as well as nature.

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    The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly what we're doing.

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    The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.

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    The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.

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    The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.

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    The poet doesn't invent. He listens.

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    The poet is a madman lost in adventure.

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    The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.

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    The poet is the priest of the invisible.

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    The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is under a certain compulsion to do so.

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    [The poet] must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place.

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    ...the poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.

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    The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.

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    The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

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    The poet resists the pressures of reality, including the pressures of violence, in making, in forming, the poem. The tension is in the resistance - the poem is an act of resistance.