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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present the words which express what they understand not the trumpets which sing to battle, and feel not what they inspire the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Poets sing our human music for us.
Carol Ann Duffy
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Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.
Anne Stevenson
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Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.
Anne Waldman
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Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.
Archibald MacLeish
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Poets are always the advance guard of literature the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.
Amy Lowell
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Poets should be law-givers that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, and the day's work.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Poets find truth by writing about what they love.
Susan Cooper
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Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.
Jean Cocteau
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
J. D. Salinger
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Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.
Gerald Brenan
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Poets suffer occasional delusions of angelhood and find themselves condemned to express it in the bric-a-brac tongues of the human world. Lots of them go mad.
Glen Duncan
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Poets can't worry about popularity since loving life and humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear.
Vanna Bonta
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poets are privileged to utter more than they can always quite explain, bringing up from the mind's unplumbed depths tokens of the nature of the world we carry within us.
Vernon Lee
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Poets wish to profit or to please.
Horace
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Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.
Robert Penn Warren
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Poets should speak out against what we see as the assault against our Constitution and the warmongering that's going on. I'm perfectly willing to lay down my life for my Constitution, but I am not willing to take a life for it or any other reason because I think killing people is counterproductive.
Sam Hamill
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Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.
William Wycherley
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Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of angels.
William Carlos Williams
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Poets, on the face of it, have either got to be easier or to write their own notes readers have either got to take more trouble over reading or cease to regard notes as pretentious and a sign of bad poetry
William Empson
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Poets of course are even more unpredictable than other writers, overwhelmed as they are by the moment they inhabit and finding it difficult to connect yesterday with tomorrow.
Karl Shapiro
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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
Alexander Pope
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Poets play with words to keep themselves sane
Eyedea
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