#poets

The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods. ↗

— Socrates

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Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

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A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

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My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me. ↗

— Luc Ferrari

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Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam. ↗

— Conor Oberst

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Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry. ↗

— Anne Stevenson

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Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest. ↗

— Mary MacLane

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Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever. ↗

— Stan Brakhage

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I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

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Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry. ↗

— Julian Barnes

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