#poet

What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

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A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

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I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

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I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

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I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

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The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

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Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. ↗

— Plato

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Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license. ↗

— Christopher Plummer

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. ↗

— Plutarch

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