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Inside every man there is a poet who died young.


Stephan Kanfer

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-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II

this is my letter to a young ...
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EDMOND DE GONCOURT A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin
EDMOND DE GONCOURT The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his mo...
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GEORGE CARLIN It's a great cause. I had a mother who died of cancer when I was young.
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GEORGE SANTAYANA The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
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GARY F EVANS... Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER Inside every man there is... not an animal for animals maintain their sophistication... but chaos. C...
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and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
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DAVID LLOYD GEORGE Here lies who, born a man, a grocer died. [Fr., Ne homme--mort epicier.]
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SALVADOR DALI The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to ...
SALVADOR DALI The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to re...
SALVADOR DALí The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to re...
SALVADOR DALí I am sure that there is many a young man who would think it a great honor to exchange his name for y...
ERIK CHRISTIAN HAUGAARD Sir, I admit your general rule,
That every poet is a fool,
But you yourself may serve to...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightni...
RANDALL JARRELL A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightni...
RANDALL JARRELL A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightni...
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CHARLES HORACE MAYO Ninguém o pode aconselhar ou ajudar, — ninguém.
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PAUL VALERY A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.
ANON. A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.
UNKNOWN A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.
ANONYMOUS Life's irony;Inside every man lies a corruptible being,just waiting to be ignited.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The man of science is nothing if not a poet gone wrong.
GEORGE MEREDITH But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.
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ALAN CURBISHLEY Life's irony;There is competition every where even right inside our homes,for a man will have to com...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) There is a man in every woman.
MUHAMMED HAIDER I wish I didn’t see inside of every man I come in contact with, but there they are, a miserable li...
BOBBY W. MILLER No bad man can be a good poet.
BORIS PASTERNAK There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.
WINSTON CHURCHILL There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is nothing so good for the inside of a man as the outside of a horse.
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FAZEL AHMAD I saw the bodies and blood covering the walls and ground. Many people died inside. Many died.
ABBAS TALIB The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
JEAN COCTEAU Read out my words at night, alone: I was a poet, I was young
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