#poet

A poet can survive everything but a misprint. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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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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I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written. ↗

— Saul Williams

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I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life. ↗

— Saul Williams

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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

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Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking. ↗

— Malcolm Wilson

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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