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#poets

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Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.


Wislawa Szymborska


#deny #fortune #group #i #inspiration

A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it.


Amber Tamblyn


#bored #bush #democracy #era #experienced

Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.


Allen Tate


#men #poets #practical #results #their

On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there.


Michael Cunningham


#around #differently #dinner #down #each

While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think that's true about many of us.


Thom Gunn


#curiosity #curious #i #many #other

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.


Adrian Mitchell


#been #blake #experience #friends #his

What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming?


Aberjhani


#dreams #famous-authors #famous-poets #living #metaphysics

Life is only a flicker of melted ice.


Dejan Stojanovic


#flicker #ice #life #literature #literature-quotes

The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade.


Dejan Stojanovic


#dejan-stojanovic #festive #light #literature #literature-quotes






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