#poets

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

— John Fowles

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When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things. ↗

— Robert Frost

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Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market. ↗

— Robert Frost

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Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going. ↗

— James Laughlin

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I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian. ↗

— James Laughlin

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Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil. ↗

— Henry Miller

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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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