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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't. ↗

— Barbara Walters

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I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs. ↗

— Roger Waters

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I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed. ↗

— William Wiley

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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. ↗

— William Wordsworth

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I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. ↗

— Steven Wright

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I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

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Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate. ↗

— William Wycherley

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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. ↗

— Edward Young

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At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age. ↗

— Marguerite Young

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