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Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it. ↗

— Roger McGough

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Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together. ↗

— Roger McGough

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One does not become a poet by uttering beautiful words. One becomes a poet by pouring their soul as wine into the Cup of Love. ↗

— Subhan Zein

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I'm a peasant I'm the muzhik A pest you're destined to play the music And yes it's pleasant to say it's beauty I'm Indebted to rest respecting it truly ↗

— Criss Jami

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Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation. ↗

— Natalie Merchant

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Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. ↗

— Pat Metheny

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Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer. ↗

— Bette Midler

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Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil. ↗

— Henry Miller

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The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

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