"Poets are born, not paid."

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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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Jean Cocteau, French Director

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Isaac Rosenberg, English Poet

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Helen Dunmore, British Poet

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Jack Prelutsky, American Poet

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

Edmund Waller, English Poet

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"Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned."

Robert Adamson, Scottish Philosopher

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George Murray, Canadian Poet

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"If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets."

Peter Davison, British Actor

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Brian Harris, American Lawyer

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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."

"Poets go through a very tough apprenticeship in the use of words."

"I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe."

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

"Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned."

"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."

"If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets."

"Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence."

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"Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate."

"Where there is a will there is a lawsuit."

"Poets are born, not paid."