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"Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance."	Jean Anouilh
"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."	Sir Francis Bacon
"Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but now without poetry."	Charles Baudelaire
"If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lifes, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world."	Reginald Blyth
"What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows."	Peter Brodie
"One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day."	Peter Brodie
"A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men."	Thomas Carlyle
"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness."	Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events; just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least."	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is prose; words in their best order;-poetry; the best words in the best order."	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Poetry: the best words in the best order."	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose."	Mario M(atthew) Cuomo
"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite."	Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac
"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."	T. S. Eliot
"To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold."	Zelda
"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the human heart can hold."	Zelda
"Nobody has ever measured even poets, how much a heart can hold."	Zelda
"Poets generally love cats -- because poets have no delusions about their own superiority."	Marion Garretty
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