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"Poets wish to profit or to please."
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"Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race."
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"A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses."
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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."
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"Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets."
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"Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek."
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"I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do."
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"If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets."
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"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."
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"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."
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"The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbor."
Success
"The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet."
Power
"To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it."
Friendship
"Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not."
Money
"Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life."
Life
"Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself."
Man
"Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers."
Family
"Words will not fail when the matter is well considered."
Will
"It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement."
Art
"Fidelity is the sister of justice."
Family
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