#poets

Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both. ↗

— Andrew Motion

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

— George Orwell

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Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact. ↗

— Henry Rollins

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Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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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

#earlier #help #only #poets #read

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance. ↗

— Anne Sexton

#just #moderation #nor #poets #saints

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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