#poet

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

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Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement. ↗

— Samuel Prout

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For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim. ↗

— Philip Pullman

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Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

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Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per cent - into their otherwise sober documents. ↗

— John C. Ransom

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Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living. ↗

— Vanessa Redgrave

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