#poet

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

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I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry. ↗

— Ben Okri

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Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever. ↗

— Stan Brakhage

#forever #novelists #poets #side

Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are. ↗

— Julio Cortazar

#before #dreams #knows #only #play

I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

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It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us. ↗

— John Ruskin

#arched #every #looks #out #poetry

The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate. ↗

— James Schuyler

#artist #communicate #first #impossible #make

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. ↗

— William Shenstone

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As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#days #deeper #inwardly #less #life

When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep. ↗

— Patti Smith

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