"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."

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

Helen Dunmore, British Poet

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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."

George Murray, Canadian Poet

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"There are very few great poets in the world."

Tahar Ben Jelloun, French Poet

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"A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses."

Jean Cocteau, French Director

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"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."

Jean Cocteau, French Director

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"I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself."

Diane Wakoski, American Poet

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"Poets wish to profit or to please."

Horace, Roman Poet

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"It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets."

Dougray Scott, Scottish Actor

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"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"Consciousness is the glory of creation."

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"My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls."

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"In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets."

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"Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness."

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"I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action."

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"The only limits are, as always, those of vision."

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

"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."

"There are very few great poets in the world."

"A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses."

"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."

"I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself."

"Poets wish to profit or to please."

"It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets."

"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."

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

Explore more quotes by James Broughton

"Consciousness is the glory of creation."

"My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls."

"In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets."

"Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness."

"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."

"For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic."

"The American public does not know poets exist."

"I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion."

"I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action."

"The only limits are, as always, those of vision."