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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.


Harold Bloom


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The poets whom I knew then were all men and all seemed dauntingly sure of themselves - although I am sure that really they were as uncertain as I was.


Helen Dunmore


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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.


T. S. Eliot


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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.


T. S. Eliot


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Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.


James Broughton


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The American public does not know poets exist.


James Broughton


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Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.


Federico Fellini


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We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.


Lawrence Ferlinghetti


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Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.


Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.


Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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