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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."
"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."
"I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do."
"I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe."
"Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned."
"The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets."
Explore more quotes by Horace
"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant."
"What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye."
"This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist."
"I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well."
"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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