A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.
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God is the perfect poet.
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Always be a poet, even in prose.
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There exist only three beings worthy of respect the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
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Many brave men lived before Agamemnon but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.
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A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.
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Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life.... The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song
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I am a poet. I lock myself in my room with a type writer so I can talk in terms of the world that has put me here.
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As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
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Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
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If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
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Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.
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At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.
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The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible thin
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, "Truth is the daughter of Time."
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The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.
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A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, Adversity is the first path to truth
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A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child
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What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or, if he is merely a boxer, only his muscle? On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly alert to the heartrending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness.
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The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.
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There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
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