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• If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

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

  Robert A. Heinlein

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• Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.

  Jim Carroll

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• If poets were realistic, they wouldn’t be poets.

  Peter Davison

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• No bad man can be a good poet.

  Boris Pasternak

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• The poet is a madman lost in adventure.

  Paul Verlaine

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• I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.

  Paul Dirac

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• I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman’s mind to be more like my own than any other man’s living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

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• I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last.

  George Murray

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• A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

  George Henry Lewes

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• The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn’t exist.

  Theophile Gautier

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• We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.

  E. M. Forster

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• None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.

  Edith Hamilton

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• The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

  Edith Sitwell

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• A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

  Edmond de Goncourt

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• I like to think that I’m a sort of poet for our times.

  Carol Ann Duffy

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• The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

  Edward Dahlberg

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• If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

  Charles Baudelaire

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• The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

  Charles Baudelaire

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• One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

  Ella Maillart

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