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Them lady poets must not marry, pal. ↗

— John Berryman

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[A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

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Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand. ↗

— Plato

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A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

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Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust? ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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