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I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the w

Art Creation World Conduct
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
Poet Heart Hold Measure
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Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

Communicating Dictionary Impact Poet
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

Audiences Great Must Poets
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I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

Assistance Greek Libraries Little
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I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.

Become Festival Inspired Kids
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Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I'll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master... it's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

BecausCaught Either Fail Master
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
Imitate Immature Mature Poets
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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
Important Important Thing Little Most
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And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

Better Daily Daily Lives Finer
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Decided Deliver Find Inspiration
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The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.

Gods Only Poets Interpreters
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Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Against Beginners Business Market
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Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

Baseball Both Intervals Like
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The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.

More Poets Sound Than
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Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it.

Over Death Poets Triumphs
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We all fear loneliness, madness, dying. Shakespeare and Walt Whitman, Leopardi and Hart Crane will not cure those fears. And yet these poets bring us fire and light.

Will Fear
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
Ceases Critic Deadly Encouragement
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.

Always Emotions Personally Poets
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

Dreams False Poets Tales
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For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words.

About Apt Attempt Else
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For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.

Artists Dancers Given Interesting
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At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.

About Been Came Crazy
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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

Dictionary Earlier Help Poets
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Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.

Women Make Poets Children
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I know who the great poets are.

Great Know Poets Who
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My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.

Bread Butter Favorite May
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In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things.

Discover Enjoy Lots Love
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Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and his son, who were profuse in their attentions, that I was in earnest.

Angry Daily Earnest Falling
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Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.

Around Genuine Hanging Known
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People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.

Celebrate Celebrated Mistake More
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There are very few great poets in the world.

Very few Great poets World
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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how.

Acts Creation Ordinarily reserved Gods
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In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

Age poet Social reformers Stimulate Own time
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Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

Poems Heroes Race Latter
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Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

Saints have No moderation Do poets Just exuberance
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Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

Written Poetry Reading Destroyed
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Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.

Not everyone Who drinks A poet
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All great poets have been men of great knowledge.

Great Poets Men Knowledge
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We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

Write Poems Poets Words
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Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.

World Saints Conquerors Poets
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The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.

Poets Vanguard Conception Being
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Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of.

Poets Painters Power Dare
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