"The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible."

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

Peter Davison, British Actor

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"I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

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"Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment."

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"Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger.Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.There is one who remembers the way to your door:Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.You shall not deny the Stranger.They constantly try to escapeFrom the darkness outside and withinBy dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.But the man that is shall shadowThe man that pretends to be."

Philosophy

"April is the cruellest month."

Voice

"So the lover must struggle for words."

Writer

"My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down."

Trouble

"There is nothing at all to be done about it, There is nothing to do about anything."

Despair

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

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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."

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

"I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie."

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"Till Human voices wake us, and we drown."

"The journey not the arrival matters."

"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."

"Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment."

"April is the cruellest month."

"So the lover must struggle for words."

"My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down."

"There is nothing at all to be done about it, There is nothing to do about anything."

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."