"The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets."

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"They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me."

Tom Glazer, American Musician

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"Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation."

Kenneth Koch, American Poet

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

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

Eli Khamarov, American Author

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

Edmund Waller, English Poet

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"A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses."

Jean Cocteau, French Director

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"I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself."

Diane Wakoski, American Poet

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"I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way."

Jim Jarmusch, American Director

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"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."

James Broughton, American Director

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"All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim."

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"I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter."

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"God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days."

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"If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them."

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"They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me."

"Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation."

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

"I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen."

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

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

"A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses."

"I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself."

"I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way."

"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."

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"People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too."

"All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim."

"I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter."

"Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs."

"God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days."

"If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them."