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Poets Quotes
Lines on the craft and calling of poetry.
Poetry asks as much of its readers as its writers, and this page collects lines built around that exchange — one voice here even calls poets the decathletes of literature, built for range rather than a single event. It pairs naturally with Expression quotes for more on how writers put feeling into words.
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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
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Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever.
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The poets are only the interpreters of the gods.
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Frost is the most sophisticated of poets.
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Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
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Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors.
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I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.
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I know who the great poets are.
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