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You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand. ↗

— Plato

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A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

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Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust? ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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