 | "Most people ignore most poetry
because
most poetry ignores most people."
- Adrian Mitchell
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| "There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create."
- Charles Baudelaire
, Mon Coeur Mis a Nu, XXII. |
| "The freedom of poetic license."
- Cicero
, Pro Publio Sestio. |
| "All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry."
- G. K. Chesterton
, Defendant (1901). |
| "Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
- G. K. Chesterton
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| "Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet."
- Horace
, Odes. |
| "The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood."
- Jean Cocteau
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| "One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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| "You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."
- John Ciardi
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| "Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance."
- John Keats
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