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Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully.
Poetry and Poets
Aristotle

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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Lies and Lying
Aristotle

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Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.
Travel and Tourism
Sir Richard Burton

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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
Plagiarism
John Dryden

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We all write poems. It is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
Poetry and Poets
John Fowles

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When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
Men and Women
Benjamin Franklin

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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.
Custom
Thomas Hardy

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Poets wish to profit or to please.
Poetry and Poets
Horace

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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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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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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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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Poetry and Poets
Percy Bysshe Shelley

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To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.
Audiences
Walt Whitman

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