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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 defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.
Charles Olson 
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Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
James Broughton
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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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I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.
Isaac Rosenberg
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Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x, one about y. This is a wonder to me.
Sharon Olds
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The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.
George Grosz
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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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Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.
Robert Graves
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We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.
Eli Khamarov
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