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| Lascelles Abercrombie |
Poetry is the work of poets...
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| Robert Adamson |
He was certainly in a confused...
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| Robert Adamson |
Francis Webb is easily our...
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| Robert Adamson |
I don't know if younger poets...
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| Bill Alexander |
Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets...
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| Jean Anouilh |
Inspiration is a farce that...
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| David Antin |
The ancient Greek oral poets...
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| Guillaume Apollinaire |
Without poets, without artists, men...
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| Saint Thomas Aquinas |
Because philosophy arises from awe...
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| Hannah Arendt |
Poets are the only people to...
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| Aristotle |
It is Homer who has chiefly...
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| Aristotle |
Homer has taught all other...
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| Antonin Artaud |
Written poetry is worth reading...
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| Antonin Artaud |
Written poetry is worth reading...
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| Paul Auster |
I was always interested in...
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| Philip James Bailey |
Poets are all who love, who...
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| John Barton |
Poets can't resist the dramatic...
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| John Barton |
I feel very connected to poets...
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| John Barton |
The community of poets I...
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| John Barton |
Poets have to be sensitive to...
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| Samuel Beckett |
Poets are the sense, philosophers...
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| Peter Bichsel |
It is strange, how quickly...
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| Harold Bloom |
All that a critic, as critic...
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| James Broughton |
The American public does not...
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| James Broughton |
In the world of poetry there...
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| James Broughton |
Rarest of the real poets are...
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| James Broughton |
Most poets, like most people...
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| James Broughton |
Most poets in their youth...
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| Norman O. Brown |
In its famous paradox, the...
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| Richard Burton |
Travelers are like poets. They...
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| Richard Francis Burton |
Travellers, like poets, are mostly...
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| Miguel De Cervantes |
Modesty, tis a virtue not...
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| Harry Chapin |
She knows more of love than...
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| Malcolm De Chazal |
Women make us poets, children...
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| Gilbert K. Chesterton |
The poets have been mysteriously...
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| Lucille Clifton |
People wish to be poets more...
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| Jean Cocteau |
Poets don't draw. They unravel...
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| Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Reviewers are usually people who...
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| Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
I wish our clever young poets...
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| Mason Cooley |
Young poets bewail the passing...
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| Bill Cosby |
Poets have said that the...
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| Alphonse Daudet |
Poets are people who can still...
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| Rebecca H. Davis |
America may have great poets...
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| Peter Davison |
The trouble with the performance...
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| Peter Davison |
Frost is the most sophisticated...
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| Peter Davison |
If poets were realistic, they...
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| Peter Davison |
But there is some way in...
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| Christopher Dawson |
But the West did not last...
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| Anita Diament |
One of my favorite poets...
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| James Dickey |
I think Ginsberg has done more...
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| Rita Dove |
My favorite poets may not be...
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| Rita Dove |
In working on a poem,I...
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| John Drinkwater |
Great men are rare, poets are...
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| Carol Ann Duffy |
Poets deal in writing about...
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| Helen Dunmore |
The poets whom I knew then...
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| Helen Dunmore |
Poets go through a very tough...
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| Helen Dunmore |
I have learned so much from...
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| Philip Dunne |
It's easy to understand why...
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| T. S. Eliot |
Immature poets imitate; mature poets...
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| T. S. Eliot |
The most important thing for...
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| Federico Fellini |
Money is everywhere but so is...
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| Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
We have to raise the...
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| Luc Ferrari |
My sisters were going out with...
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| Richard P. Feynman |
Poets say science takes away...
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| Zelda Fitzgerald |
Nobody has ever measured, not...
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| Zelda Fitzgerald |
Nobody has ever measured, not...
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| John Fowles |
We all write poems; it is...
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| Benjamin Franklin |
When men and woman die, as...
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| Robert Frost |
Modern poets talk against business...
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| Robert Frost |
Poets are like baseball pitchers...
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| Aulus Gellius |
Another one of the old poets...
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| Allen Ginsberg |
Poets are Damned... but See...
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| Jean Giraudoux |
As soon as war is declared...
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| Tom Glazer |
They say poets write mostly...
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| Robert Graves |
Anthropologists are a connecting link...
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| Robert Graves |
Never use the word 'audience...
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| George Grosz |
The cult of individuality and...
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| Thom Gunn |
I was at a benefit for...
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| Thom Gunn |
While I don't satisfy my...
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| Marilyn Hacker |
I don't think it's by accident...
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| Marilyn Hacker |
I wonder what it means about...
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| John B. S. Haldane |
And if we must educate our...
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| Thomas Hardy |
Of course poets have morals...
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| Roy Harper |
I'm inspired by the poets, so...
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| Brian Harris |
Poets write the words you have...
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| Ernest Hemingway |
Pound's crazy. All poets are...
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| Heraclitus |
I am what libraries and...
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| Horace |
Poets wish to profit or to...
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| Muhammad Iqbal |
Nations are born in the hearts...
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| Jim Jarmusch |
A lot of poets too live...
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| Jim Jarmusch |
I think of poets as outlaw...
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| Jim Jarmusch |
Poets are always ahead of...
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| Tahar Ben Jelloun |
There are very few great poets...
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| Billy Joel |
Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets...
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| Eyvind Johnson |
Many men of science and poets...
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| Eli Khamarov |
Poets are soldiers that liberate...
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| Michael Kinsley |
If sexual intercourse, as the...
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| David Knopfler |
I always liked the magic of...
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| Kenneth Koch |
I've had trouble with criticism...
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| Kenneth Koch |
Maybe there are three or four...
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| Robby Krieger |
In The Doors we have both...
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| Lactantius |
It is possible that Mount...
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| Lactantius |
The poets, therefore, however much...
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| Alphonse de Lamartine |
Poets and heroes are of the...
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| James Laughlin |
Concrete poets continue to turn...
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| James Laughlin |
I think one ages and one...
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| James Laughlin |
I think that is where poetry...
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| David Herbert Lawrence |
It is quite true, as some...
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| George H. Lewes |
Science is not addressed to...
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| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
The Helicon of too many poets...
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| H. P. Lovecraft |
But are not the dreams of...
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| Norman MacCaig |
And some poets are far better...
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| Mary MacLane |
Of poets I put Virgil first...
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| Mohsen Makhmalbaf |
Rumi, who is one of the...
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| Alfred Marshall |
In every age poets and social...
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| Roger McGough |
Yes, you can feel very alone...
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| Henry Miller |
Example moves the world more...
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| Gabriela Mistral |
At this moment, by an...
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| Margaret Mitchell |
The south produced statesmen and...
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| Adrian Mitchell |
There have always been poets...
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| Addison Mizner |
Poets are born, not paid.
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| Eugenio Montale |
But poets were not considered...
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| Eugenio Montale |
There is poetry even in prose...
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| Robert Morgan |
The Language Poets are writing...
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| Robert Morgan |
Southern poets are still writing...
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| Robert Morgan |
Maybe the example of Southern...
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| Karl Philipp Moritz |
Whilst in Prussia poets only...
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| Christopher Morley |
The bicycle, the bicycle surely...
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| Paul Muldoon |
Living at that pitch, on that...
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| Paul Muldoon |
Obviously one of the things...
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| George Murray |
Well, we all start thinking...
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| Len Murray |
And thus it was that I...
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| Gavin Newsom |
San Francisco has long been a...
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| Conor Oberst |
Let the poets cry themselves...
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| Sharon Olds |
Many poets write books. They'll...
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| Sharon Olds |
There are some fine books and...
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| Charles Olson |
I defer to all these other...
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| George Orwell |
Language ought to be the joint...
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| Wilfred Owen |
All a poet can do today...
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| Albert Pike |
Almost all the noblest things...
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| Plato |
Poets utter great and wise...
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| Dennis Potter |
Children can write poetry and...
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| Jack Prelutsky |
When I began writing, I didn't...
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| Jack Prelutsky |
I've been influenced by poets...
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| Salvatore Quasimodo |
The poet's other readers are...
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| John C. Ransom |
Till now poets were privileged...
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| John C. Ransom |
When critics are waiting to...
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| Herbert Read |
The worth of a civilization or...
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| Isaac Rosenberg |
I can't look at things in...
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| Muriel Rukeyser |
In our period, they say there...
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| Carl Sandburg |
I make it clear why I...
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| Carl Sandburg |
I took to wearing a black...
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| Carl Sandburg |
The scholars and poets of an...
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| Olive Schreiner |
Perhaps the old monks were...
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| Delmore Schwartz |
All poets' wives have rotten...
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| Dougray Scott |
It's difficult to get films...
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| Anne Sexton |
Saints have no moderation, nor...
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| Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators...
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| Socrates |
I decided that it was not...
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| Socrates |
The poets are only the...
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| Stephen Sondheim |
Lyrics have to be underwritten...
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| Edmund Spenser |
The poets' scrolls will outlive...
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| Anne Stevenson |
Poets should ignore most criticism...
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| Gustave Stresemann |
A Shakespeare could have arisen...
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| Wislawa Szymborska |
Though I may deny poets their...
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| Wislawa Szymborska |
Poets yearn, of course, to be...
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| Amber Tamblyn |
A lot of young poets today...
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| Allen Tate |
Poets, in their way, are...
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| Tom Verlaine |
I wonder what all those...
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| Diane Wakoski |
American poets celebrate their bodies...
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| Diane Wakoski |
I think one of the things...
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| Diane Wakoski |
I'm passing on a tradition of...
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| Edmund Waller |
Poets lose half the praise...
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| Edmund Waller |
Poets that lasting marble seek...
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| Robert Penn Warren |
Poets, we know, are terribly...
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| Arthur Wellesley |
I hate the whole race. There...
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| Walt Whitman |
To have great poets, there...
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| Walt Whitman |
To have great poets, there...
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| William Wiley |
All kids, when they go to...
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| Tom Wolfe |
There has been a time on...
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| Robert Wyatt |
I'm not, by nature, a...
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| William Wycherley |
Poets, like whores, are only...
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| William Wycherley |
Poets, like friends to whom...
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| William Butler Yeats |
Irish poets, learn your trade...
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| Yevgeny Yevtushenko |
In Russia all tyrants believe...
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| Marguerite Young |
At the age of 18 all...
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