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The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

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If I had a soul I sold it for pretty words If I had a body I used it up spurting my essence Allen Ginsberg warns you dont follow my path to extinction ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

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And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

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[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

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A poem is a naked person....Some people say that I am a poet. ↗

— Bob Dylan

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He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one. ↗

— Nora Roberts

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That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse. ↗

— N.H. Kleinbaum

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To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge. ↗

— George Eliot

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A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

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