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    Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

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    Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?

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    Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet.

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    Dan Gerber is one of our finest living poets.

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    Do you know, Considering the market, there are more Poems produced than any other thing? No wonder poets sometimes have to seem So much more businesslike than businessmen. Their wares are so much harder to get rid of.

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    Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

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    Dulness! whose good old cause I yet defend, With whom my muse began, with who shall end.

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    Do poets have any insight into what's the right ratio? I doubt it, but I think that they can be awake to what the ends are.

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    Drew Dellinger is a deep and courageous poet. How lucky we are!

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    Even the dog is described by the poet to have received justice under Ramarajya.

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    [Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness.

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    Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

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    Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

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    Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.

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    Emily Dickinson calls previous poets her kinsmen of the shelf. You can always be consoled by your kinsmen of the shelf and you can participate in poetry by going to them and by trying to make something worthy of them.

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    Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom.

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    Every original poet has a new insight, or rather introduces a new power.

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    Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast; he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete.

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    Everyone wants to be open and inclusive, but nobody wants to pay for it. It's the biggest roadblock to translating living writers, especially poets.

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    Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay.

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    Every poet has a certain amount of "stuff." That's what you draw from for imagery. The more stuff you know well, not simply intellectually but sensually, emotionally, intimately, the wider the pool from which you draw.

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    Fact is not truth, but a poet who wilfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.

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    Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.

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    Every poem, formal or free, has an ideal shape, and the job of the poet is to find it.

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    Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.

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    For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.

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    For a poet, style is the only morality.

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    Few poets have made a more interesting rhetoric out of just fooling around: turning things upside down, looking at them from under the sofa, considering them (and their observer) curiously enough to make the reader protest, "That were to consider it too curiously.

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    For five hundred years after Walther's death - until Goethe - no German lyric poet was his equal.

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    For as fire is kindled by fire, so is a poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.

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    For me, a poet is someone who is 'in contact.' Someone through whom a current is passing.

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    For a young and presumptuous poet a disposition to write satires is one of the most dangerous he can encourage. It tempts him to personalities, which are not always forgiven after he has repented and become ashamed of them.

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

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

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    For nothing keeps a poet In his high singing mood Like unappeasable hunger For unattainable food.

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    For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.

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    ... For me it is essential, essential for the poet to have a new toast, new songs.

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    For poets that have had my luck, Seldom write when they can kiss.

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    For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

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    For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in the greatest painters, poets, writers, and songwriters in history.

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    For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.

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    For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts or pleasant pastimes, our feelings were expected to kneel to thought as women were expected to kneel to men. But women have survived. As poets.

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    For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.

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    Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places.

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    God, eldest of Poets.

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    God is nothing but creativity. So wherever there is a sign of creativity, God has a signature there. He has already been there. Maybe even the poet does not know, but he has been touched by something from the beyond.

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    For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.

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    God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.

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    Good-bye to the lies of the poets. [Lat., Valeant mendacia vatum.]

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    Golf is to me what his Sabine farm was to the poet Horace - a solace and an inspiration.