#poet

A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. ↗

— W. H. Auden

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Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

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My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative. ↗

— Bob Balaban

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Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. ↗

— Stephen Spender

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The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death. ↗

— Edmund Spenser

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But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung. ↗

— Amelia Barr

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Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results? ↗

— John Barton

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In greatness, life and death merge. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

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