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"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be."	Abraham Maslow
"A poem is no place for an idea."	Edgar Watson Howe
"A poem should not mean But be."	Archibald MacLeish
"A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer.... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring."	E.B. White
"A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland."	Kahlil Gibran
"A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory."	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits."	Robert Heinlein
"A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men."	Thomas Carlyle
"Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science."	Robert Graves
"Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but now without poetry."	Charles Baudelaire
"Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness."	Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream- a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows- is essentially poetry."	Jesse Louis Jackson
"Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream- a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows- is essentially poetry."	Michel Leiris
"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."	T.S. Eliot
"He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise."	Oscar Wilde
"He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards."	Georg Christopher Lichtenberg
"He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite."	Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."	Sir Francis Bacon
"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again."	Oscar Wilde
"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
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Kahlil Gibran	Marcus Tullius Cicero	Marianne Moore
Marion Garretty	Mario M(atthew) Cuomo	Martin Luther King, Jr.
Michel Leiris	Oscar Wilde	Paul Dirac
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac	Peter Brodie	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reginald Blyth	Robert Frost	Robert Heinlein
Robert Graves	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Sir Francis Bacon
Thomas Carlyle	T.S. Eliot	T. S. Eliot
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