#poe

If money isn't everything, why do we toss coins into wishing wells? ↗

— Jaf Liethers

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Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race. ↗

— Richard Burton

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Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest. ↗

— Richard Francis Burton

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Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. ↗

— James Branch Cabell

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I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry. ↗

— John Cage

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Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and his poems. The letters were fresh, intimate and irreverent, as though he were present and speaking. The Keats spell went very deep for me. ↗

— Jane Campion

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People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated. ↗

— Lucille Clifton

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Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language. ↗

— Lucille Clifton

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Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

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I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

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