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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

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Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. ↗

— Aristotle

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People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book. ↗

— Simon Armitage

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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

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Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

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The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death. ↗

— Edmund Spenser

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But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung. ↗

— Amelia Barr

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Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results? ↗

— John Barton

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In greatness, life and death merge. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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