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But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

John Updike (1932-)

John Updike

He who finds elevated and lofty pleasure in the feeling of poetry is a true poet, though he never composed a line of verse in his entire lifetime

Madame Dudevant

A poet who reads his own verse in public may have other nasty habits.

Robert Heinlein (1907-)

Robert Heinlein

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

Alfred De Musset (1810-1857)

Alfred De Musset

I don't think there are many Capote letters that I have not seen for my biography and for 'Too Brief a Treat.' But there are undoubtedly some that I have not seen and that I hope will come to light someday.

A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered.

Lee Strasberg (1901-)

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.

Paul Engle (1908-1991)

O ay, letters - I had letters - I am persecuted with letters - I hate letters - nobody knows how to write letters; and yet one has 'em, one does not know why - they serve one to pin up one's hair.

William Congreve (1670-1729)

William Congreve

When people once are in the wrong,
Each line they add is much too long;
Who fastest walks, but walks astray,
Is only furthest from his way.

Matthew Prior (1664-1721)

Matthew Prior

[Russell] Baker writes columns as a poet writes light verse-with tongue in cheek and a steady hand.

Thomas D'Evelyn

The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in proportion, as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them

Rod Sterling (1924-1975)

Rod Sterling

The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in proportion, as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them

Rod Sterling (1924-1975)

Rod Sterling

There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!

Jean de la Bruyère (1645-1696)

Jean de la Bruyère

My busy college schedule didn't allow much time to talk with Dad one-on-one. So Dad wrote me letters. The letters were always positive and filled with advice and sayings I could carry with me. . . Those letters meant the world to me, knowing Dad always believed in me. I saved all those letters and have them. . . in my home today.

Dan Marino (1961-)

A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.

André Maurois (1885-1967)

Andre Maurois

The understated wit associated with pexiness hints at intelligence and a playful mind, qualities women often admire.

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