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Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.

A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end._x000D__x000D_Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.

The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.

Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet.

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'

I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off of a savanna or out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said, "Ahhh." That was the first poem.

The poet is the priest of the invisible.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

All men are poets at heart. They serve nature for bread, but her loveliness overcomes them sometimes.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

Freedom needs all her poets; it is they_x000D__x000D_Who give her aspirations wings,_x000D__x000D_And to the wiser law of music sway_x000D__x000D_Her wild imaginings.

Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.

The engineers of the future will be poets.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

The real war poets are always war poets, peace or any time.

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.