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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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I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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there is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for any kind of sociability, however trivial or cheap, for the tiniest outward agreement with the first person who comes along.... ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

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If I had a soul I sold it for pretty words If I had a body I used it up spurting my essence Allen Ginsberg warns you dont follow my path to extinction ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

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And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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