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“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.”
“No man was ever yet a great poet without at the same time being a profound philosopher.”
“All men are poets at heart.”
“Modern poets mix too much water with their ink.”
“The man is either mad or he is making verses.”
“All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them but what is universal.”
“Every man is a poet when he is in love.”
“Poets have a license to lie.”
“Villon our sad bad glad mad brother's name.”
“He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one.”
“To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of em...”
“Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.”
“We all knew she needed help.But none of us knew how.And none of us could swallow our pride and just ask her what she needed.I don’t know why.Maybe we were too ashamed we didn’t know how to approach...”
“As a writer, a poet, you’re not alone in wanting to be alone. Your work is a friendship that never leaves you.”
“Poetry is and should not be explained It’s not a theory not a formula or a set patternIt’s a labyrinth of reflection with no source of image”
“You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.”
“The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art.”
“The American bards shall be marked for generosity and affection and for encouraging competitors… . The great poets are also to be known by the absence in them of tricks and by the justification of ...”
“Aviation in air, in water and in spirit. Its laws are different in all three cases. The spirit soars the more it weighs and sinks into itself. The heavier the spirit, the higher and farther it flies.”
“The pure and poorly adapted one who crashed against the world of fakes and cheats.”
