#poets

We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. ↗

— Aristotle

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Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros’s work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his most beautiful poems a revolver is leveled straight at us. ↗

— André Breton

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