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A good poet's made as well as born.
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Ben Johnson - [Poetry and Poets]
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A person born with an instinct for poverty.
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Elbert Hubbard - [Poetry and Poets]
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Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal.
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Philip Massinger - [Poetry and Poets]
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In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
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Franz Kafka - [Poetry and Poets]
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Inside every man there is a poet who died young.
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Stephan Kanfer - [Poetry and Poets]
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It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne - [Poetry and Poets]
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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
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Thomas B. Macaulay - [Poetry and Poets]
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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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Don Marquis - [Poetry and Poets]
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Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
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John Keats - [Poetry and Poets]
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Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity --it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
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John Keats - [Poetry and Poets]
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