"Poets wish to profit or to please."

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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

Poet, 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."

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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"Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings."

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"It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed."

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"Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain."

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"A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong."

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"Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not."

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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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"To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it."

"Fidelity is the sister of justice."

"Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings."

"It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed."

"Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain."

"A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong."

"Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it."

"Knowledge without education is but armed injustice."

"Whatever advice you give, be short."

"Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not."