#poets

I feel very connected to poets across the country. ↗

— John Barton

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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies. ↗

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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Darkness does not age; nothing is always nothing ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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I bargained with Life for a penny, And Life would pay no more, However I begged at evening When I counted my scanty store; For Life is just an employer, He gives you what you ask, But once you have set the wages, Why, you must bear the task. I worked for a menial's hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have paid. ↗

— Jessie B. Rittenhouse

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My sudden, unforeseen capitulation had knocked me backward, and I had nothing to hold on to. My internal weather was eerily calm, as if in a tornado's aftermath, birdsong, sunshine, supersaturated colors, wreckage all around, and myself, dazed and limping. ↗

— Kate Christensen

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You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived. ↗

— Aberjhani

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Behold yon rough and flinty road Where youth, now youth no more, Gropes whining, seeking crumbs of loaves He cast away of yore. ↗

— Emma Ghent Curtis

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A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret suffrings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music. People corwd around the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much to say, "May new sufferings torment your soul. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity." Beckett ↗

— Beckett

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Either you will be you or you will not be at all. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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