#poets

My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me. ↗

— Luc Ferrari

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Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam. ↗

— Conor Oberst

#cry #into #poets #sleep #steam

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

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Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest. ↗

— Mary MacLane

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Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever. ↗

— Stan Brakhage

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I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

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Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry. ↗

— Julian Barnes

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Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives. ↗

— Aberjhani

#cultural-arts #famous-poets #humanity #jazz #jazz-appreciation-month

A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#funny #misanthropy #philosophy #poets #schopenhauer

Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry. ↗

— Aberjhani

#art-and-the-soul #creative-genius #creativity #famous-quotes-by-famous-poets #mirrors