Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.


James Broughton

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Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
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We are born poets. we become orators.
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Women were professors, lawyers and judges. They were journalists, writers and poets.
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Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are g...
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All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.
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Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels.
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Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.
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Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
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Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon...
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There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by...
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Poets alone are sure of immortality; they are the truest diviners of nature.
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For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.
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Sure there are poets which did never dream
Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream
Of He...
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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
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Bad women poets are better characters, they seldom... get drunk... go to prison... shoot the pianist...
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The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
H. P. LOVECRAFT
Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers­­ the intelligence­­ of humanity.
SAMUEL BECKETT
Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you.
F. JOHNSON
The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.
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Homer was a true poet. He made the gods ridiculous.
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I know who the great poets are.
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Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
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Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.
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Poets are Damned ... but See with the Eyes of Angels.
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There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of Jam...
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Good poets are like angels of Heaven
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Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poet...
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There are poets and there are grownups.
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A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
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The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.
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Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully.
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Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.
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Great poets are great copy editors.
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Poets are never unemployed, just unpaid.
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Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted...
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As the poets say, stories are truth told through lies.
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Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should...
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Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff.
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The real biographies of poets are like those of birds, almost identical - their data are in the way ...
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Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are mos...
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Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most...
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Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.
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There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.
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Poets are accepted in Canada as practically nowhere else in the West because of their place in an of...
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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
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To save wildlife and wild places the traction has to come not from the regurgitation of bad-news dat...
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Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
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Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
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Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
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Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, law...
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Humor is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that the...
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Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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The universe may for...
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Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ...
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In life the only things that you see are things that you are projecting, and life presents you with ...
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Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind,
because they drink at streams w...
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Because we are all poets or babies in the middle of the night, struggling with being.
MARTIN AMIS
Poets are sultans, if they had their will: For every author would his brother kill.
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The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.
JASON SILVA
Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY
Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
FEDERICO FELLINI
There are poets who sing you to sleep
and poets who ready you for war
and I want to be bot...
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But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, ...
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I knew there was something peculiar about you," she said. "And I mean that as the highest compliment...
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Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine an...
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It's not who you are, but what you're made of. It's not where you come from, but where you're going ...
CAREW PAPRITZ
People who deliver their work in poetry slams have a lot of vitality, and they are more dramatic tha...
PETER DAVISON
Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!
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As bright examples of great qualities are but too uncommon among Christians, so are they singular an...
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We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greates...
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If you read the poets of the 19th century in Latin America, you would see that Havana or Mexico City...
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When the others were picked up and walked home by friends or fathers or best friend’s sisters,
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
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Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand
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Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.
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Frost is the most sophisticated of poets.
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Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
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When you think of all that goes into what you write you realize that only you see all that is needed...
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Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.
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The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that...
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We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words
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We all write poems. It is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
JOHN FOWLES
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
JOHN FOWLES

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I think I feel most like a princess when I'm sort of bursting with happiness and love, so whethe...
LILY JAMES
Markets work best when there's lots of information available and a historical track record to go...
JAMES SUROWIECKI
I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like ...
JAMES MCAVOY
Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.
JAMES CAMERON
There are reasons people seek escape in books, and one of those reasons is that the boundary of what...
JAMES PATTERSON
As full lines of battle could not be handled through the thick wood, I ordered the advance of the si...
JAMES LONGSTREET
When Americans think of college these days, the first word that often comes to mind is 'debt....
JAMES SUROWIECKI
Is it not the glory of the people of America, that, whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opi...
JAMES MADISON
The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to ...
JAMES MADISON
The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be der...
JAMES MADISON
The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, an...
JAMES MADISON
Equal laws protecting equal rights the best guarantee of loyalty & love of country.
JAMES MADISON
And as it the federal district is to be appropriated to this use with the consent of the State cedin...
JAMES MADISON
What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty & Learning, each le...
JAMES MADISON
Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over...
JAMES MADISON
The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is...
JAMES MADISON
In order to judge of the form to be given to this institution the Senate, it will be proper to take ...
JAMES MADISON
War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of rea...
JAMES MADISON
The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is t...
JAMES MADISON
I think it absolutely necessary that the President should have the power of removing his subordinate...
JAMES MADISON
It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the ...
JAMES MADISON
A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue t...
JAMES MADISON
Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
JAMES THURBER