#poets

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. ↗

— Aristotle

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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

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Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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It's been such a deep and amazing journey for me, getting close to John Keats, and also I love Shelley and Byron. I mean, the thing about the Romantic poets is that they've got the epitaph of romantic posthumously. They all died really young, and Keats, the youngest of them all. ↗

— Jane Campion

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She knows more of love than the poets can say, and her eyes offer something that won't go away. ↗

— Harry Chapin

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Women make us poets, children make us philosophers. ↗

— Malcolm De Chazal

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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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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 still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter, and you can find things. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

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Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going. ↗

— James Laughlin

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