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It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
David Herbert Lawrence
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
Benjamin Franklin
Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.
William Wycherley
Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words.
Helen Dunmore
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
Walt Whitman
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The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
Edmund Spenser 
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The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them.
Salvatore Quasimodo
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
Harold Bloom
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The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.
Herbert Read
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Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.
Allen Tate
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Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.
James Broughton
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Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.
Stephen Sondheim
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Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.
Bill Cosby
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