A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb
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Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle
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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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It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back
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Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, which cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet and artist has actually expressed
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Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal, but which the reader recognizes as his own
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The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life
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A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.
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To a poet nothing can be useless
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A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all, and thus would have been at the mercy of the Prefect
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Next to being a great poet, is the power of understanding one
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The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real
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A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times
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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
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Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
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The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.
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Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse. A matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.
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To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty: to be a poet at forty is to be a poet
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The poet knows himself only on the condition that things resound in him, and that in him, at a single awakening, they and he come forth together out of sleep.
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Let the poet always walk thus
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The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in proportion, as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them
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Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
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