#poets

If you are good, they say you are weak. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare? ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets. ↗

— James Laughlin

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When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

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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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Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are. ↗

— Aberjhani

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

— Beckett

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Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Only poetry, of all the artistic and cultural forms, has a certain freedom of expression in Afghanistan...poetry offers great possibilities for expression; rhetorical figures, and the use of symbols and metaphors do not make the censors' task easy. ↗

— Latif Pedram

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In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves. ↗

— Aberjhani

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