#poets

What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

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We say God and the imagination are one . . . How high that highest candle lights the dark. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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. . . poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value. ↗

— Major Jackson

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

— Samuel Beckett

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The life we’re given is on a thread, so wear it well. ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

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I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant. ↗

— Aberjhani

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You remember I had a strong inclination all my life to be a painter. Under different circumstances I would rather have been a painter than to bother with these god-damn words. I never actually thought of myself as a poet but I knew I had to be an artist in some way. ↗

— William Carlos Williams

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It is ferocious, life, but it must eat . . . ↗

— Lucia Perillo

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The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory combined with the sensitivity to what is perceived and remembered. ↗

— Dan Simmons

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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. ↗

— Zelda Fitzgerald

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