565 Quotations with Poet.
- 101. Cicero: The freedom of poetic license.

- 102. Horace: Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, ...

- 103. W. H. Auden: A poet's hope: to be,
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- 104. G. K. Chesterton: All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

- 105. Jean Cocteau: The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

- 106. Walt Whitman: The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has ...

- 107. Robert A. Heinlein: A poet that reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

- 108. Lewis Thomas: We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we r ...

- 109. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture e ...

- 110. T.S. Eliot: Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

- 111. M. C. Richards: Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.

- 112. Samuel McChord Crothers: A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins ...

- 113. G.K. Chesterton: The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seek ...

- 114. Charles Baudelaire: There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the po ...

- 115. Simonides: Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

- 116. John Adams: You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.

- 117. Sigmund Freud: Everywhere I go I find a poet has been there before me.

- 118. Lord Byron: Poetry is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

- 119. Friedrich Nietzsche: A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creat ...

- 120. Dudley Moore: Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.

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