"Poets wish to profit or to please."

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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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"Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death."

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"The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do."

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"Rule your mind or it will rule you."

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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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"Don't think, just do."

"When your neighbor's house is afire your own property is at stake."

"Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise."

"We are just statistics, born to consume resources."

"Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?"

"Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings."

"Faults are soon copied."

"Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death."

"The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do."

"Rule your mind or it will rule you."