#poet

Why should poetry have to make sense? ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

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A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. ↗

— Rene Char

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Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

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A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances. ↗

— Douglas Dunn

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Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding. ↗

— Peter Davison

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Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet. ↗

— David Duchovny

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Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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