#poets

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

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As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

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I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked. ↗

— Anita Diament

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I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that. ↗

— James Dickey

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My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets. ↗

— Rita Dove

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I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter, and you can find things. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

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I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. ↗

— John Fowles

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