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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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I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
Robert Wyatt 
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I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets.
Marilyn Hacker
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It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.
Peter Bichsel
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It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven.
Lactantius
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There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.
Tom Wolfe
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I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian.
James Laughlin
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle
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I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen.
Carl Sandburg
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