“ Poets arent very usefulBecause they aren't consumeful or produceful. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
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“ For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats. ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
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“ I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become. ”
- Jean Toomer- Copy
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“ The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for. ”
- Eugenio Montale- Copy
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“ Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. ”
- T. S. Eliot- Copy
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“ Poets aren't very useful, because they aren't consumeful or very produceful. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
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“ All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful. ”
- Wilfred Owen- Copy
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“ There is a widespread notion in the public mind that poetic inspiration has something mysterious and translunar about it, something which altogether escapes human analysis, which it would be almost sacrilege for analysis to touch. The Romans spoke of the poet's divine afflatus, the Elizabethans of his fine frenzy… ”
- Conrad Aiken- Copy
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“ I'd been a cult singer-songwriter generally well-regarded by some of the better vocalists and journalists of the seventies. Suddenly, a mass audience perceived me as a troubadour who'd dedicated his life to extolling the virtues of pineapple-based beverages. ”
- Rupert Holmes- Copy
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