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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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My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.
Rita Dove 
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Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.
Richard Burton
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Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.
Guillaume Apollinaire
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I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
Arthur Wellesley
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