#poets

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. ↗

— George Orwell

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Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition. ↗

— Eli Khamarov

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I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

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I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my passion with overexcited poets rather than pampered painters. ↗

— Arthur Smith

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The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their footsteps - although perhaps not all of their footsteps since a typical walk for Samuel T. Coleridge might last two days and cover 145km. ↗

— Arthur Smith

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Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results. ↗

— Allen Tate

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On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

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Hope without love is hopeless. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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