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Births

• 1928 - Colin Chapman
• 1929 - Harvey Gallagher Cox Jr.
• 1926 - Swami Kriyananda
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• 2001 - Susannah McCorkle
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• Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

  T. S. Eliot

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• All poets’ wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.

  Delmore Schwartz

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  Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

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• Frost is the most sophisticated of poets.

  Peter Davison

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• There are very few great poets in the world.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

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• The degree in which a poet’s imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

  George Santayana

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• Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

  George Orwell

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• Lyrics have to be underwritten. That’s why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

  Stephen Sondheim

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• I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

  Socrates

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• The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods.

  Socrates

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• Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.

  Sir Richard Francis Burton

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• Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.

  Conor Oberst

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• Many poets write books. They’ll tell you: Well, I’ve got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x, one about y. This is a wonder to me.

  Sharon Olds

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• The poet’s other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

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• Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

  Edmund Waller

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• Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.

  Edmund Waller

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• Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.

  William Wycherley

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• Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.

  Eli Khamarov

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• Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.

  Aulus Gellius

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• Poets are born, not paid.

  Addison Mizner

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