#poet

I started earning a living as a poet rather early on. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. ↗

— Abraham Maslow

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I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it. ↗

— Callan McAuliffe

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They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet. ↗

— Janet Frame

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Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life. ↗

— Mahmoud Darwish

#poetry #death

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#heart #her #his #last #men

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time. ↗

— Christopher Fry

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There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives. ↗

— Hamlin Garland

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It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#blind #craving #created #creating #driving

The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world. ↗

— Lotte Lehmann

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