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Edmund Waller

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

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

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"I don't know if younger poets read a lot of, you know, the poets - the established poets. There was a lot of pretty boring stuff to sort of put up with and to add to, to make something vital from."

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"Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other."

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

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

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"Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind."

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"Poets wish to profit or to please."

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

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"Poets are born, not paid."

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"There are very few great poets in the world."

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"And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear."
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"His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught."
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