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Edmund Waller

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

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Donna Grant

"Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race."

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Donna Grant

"The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember."

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Donna Grant

"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."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out."

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Donna Grant

"Frost is the most sophisticated of poets."

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Donna Grant

"Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition."

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Donna Grant

"Poets wish to profit or to please."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

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

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Edmund Waller
"Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain."

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Edmund Waller
"To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!"

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Edmund Waller
"So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould."

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Edmund Waller
"Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be."

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Edmund Waller
"How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!"

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

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

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Edmund Waller
"The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field."

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Edmund Waller
"Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above."

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Edmund Waller
"His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught."

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