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

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"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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Edmund Waller, English Poet

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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."

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

Peter Davison, British Actor

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Robert Adamson, Scottish Philosopher

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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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"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation."

Kenneth Koch, American Poet

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"I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

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"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."

John Barton, Canadian Poet

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"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."

"Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek."

"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."

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

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

"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."

"Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation."

"I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen."

"Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse."

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"For me, prose walks, poetry dances."

"Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect."

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"The American public does not know poets exist."

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"I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public."

"Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers."