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

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"When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble."

John C. Ransom, American Poet

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"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words."

Helen Dunmore, British Poet

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

Edmund Waller, English Poet

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"I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do."

Isaac Rosenberg, English Poet

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"Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race."

Richard Burton, Welsh Actor

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

Eli Khamarov, American Author

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"Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together."

Roger McGough, British Poet

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"Poets are born, not paid."

Addison Mizner, American Architect

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"If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets."

Peter Davison, British Actor

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"When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble."

"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."

"Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words."

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

"I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do."

"Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race."

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

"Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together."

"Poets are born, not paid."

"If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets."

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"My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed."

"Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it."

"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way."

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