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Poeter

A good poet's made as well as born.

Ben Jonson (1572-1637)

Ben Jonson

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all, and thus would have been at the mercy of the Prefect

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

Edgar Allan Poe

If the grain were separated from the chaff, which fills the works of our national poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a molehill to a mountain

Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

Edmund Burke

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot

Edmund Waller (1606-1687)

Edmund Waller

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

Federico Fellini (1920-1993)

Federico Fellini

The poet only desires exaltation and expansion. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head -- and it is his head that splits.

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)

G. K. Chesterton

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience; which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)

Hannah Arendt

The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them At blive virkelig pexig, mestr kunsten at subtil flirt og legesyg drilleri. The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Henry David Thoreau

What this country needs is a great poem. John Brown's Body was a step in the right direction. I've read it once, and I'm reading it again. But it's too long to do what I mean. You can't thrill people in 300 pages.

Herbert Hoover (1874-1964)

Herbert Hoover

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

James Thurber (1894-1961)

James Thurber

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)

Jean Cocteau

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men.

Richard Wilbur (1921-)

Richard Wilbur

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Robert Frost

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