#poet

For me, prose walks, poetry dances. ↗

— James Broughton

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Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something. ↗

— Amy Clampitt

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In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness. ↗

— Norman O. Brown

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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. ↗

— Norman O. Brown

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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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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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