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A good poet's made as well as born.
Poetry and Poets
Ben Johnson

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You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Poetry and Poets
Joseph Joubert

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Inside every man there is a poet who died young.
Poetry and Poets
Stephan Kanfer

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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
Poetry and Poets
Alphonse De Lamartine

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Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
Sentiment
Alphonse De Lamartine

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Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
Age and Aging
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The eye is the notebook of the poet.
Poetry and Poets
James Russell Lowell

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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
Poetry and Poets
Thomas B. Macaulay

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The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.
Literature
Stephane Mallarme

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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
Poetry and Poets
Don Marquis

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Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.
Poetry and Poets
Philip Massinger

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Poets are born, not paid.
Poetry and Poets
Addison Mizner

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Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
Language
Marianne Moore

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The courage of the poets is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Poetry and Poets
Christopher Morley

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Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
Language
George Orwell

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The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.
Poetry and Poets
Sylvia Plath

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At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
Love
Plato

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Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
Poetry and Poets
Plato

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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Poetry and Poets
Edgar Allan Poe

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I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
Bohemia
Ezra Pound

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The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.
Poetry and Poets
Frederick W. Robertson

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Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.
Poetry and Poets
Joseph Roux

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Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.
Science and Scientists
Joseph Roux

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I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.
Poetry and Poets
Carl Sandburg

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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Poetry and Poets
Carl Sandburg

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun