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If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, the world would be a little better place to live.

John F. Kennedy

Jim Garrison: "Treason doth never prosper," wrote an English poet, "What's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason."

JFK

Plato found fault that the poets of his time filled the world with wrong opinions of the gods, making light tales of that unspotted essence, and therefore would not have the youth depraved with such opinions.

Philip Sidney

You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.

Rebecca Harding Davis

Jean-Dominique Bauby: A poet once said, "Only a fool laughs when nothing's funny"

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Nobody: You were a poet and a painter, William Blake. But now, you're a killer of white men.

Dead Man

The first movie that made me cry was 'Dead Poets Society.' That one gets me. 'O Captain! My Captain!' That moment kills me.

David Walton

There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die.

Sharon Olds

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.

Rita Dove

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Soren Kierkegaard

I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of different influences both linguistically and musically.

Lorde

Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.

Aberjhani

Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.

Alexandre Dumas

We would – or at least we should – take upon ourselves the ultimate task of our poet: to seek the face of God.

Anthony Esolen

I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears.

Alice Oswald

The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses

Arthur Rimbaud

No sword Of wrath her right arm whirl'd, But one poor poet's scroll, and with his word She shook the world.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world...

Alice Walker

Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.

Robert Morgan

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

Salvador Dali

When words don't come easy, I make do with silence and find something in nothing." ~ Strider Marcus Jones, Poet

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