Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
Salman Rushdie
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Few in the Nineties would have ventured to prophesy that the remote dim singer of the Celtic Twilight would, in a new age, become the leading poet of the English-speaking world. None have disputed the claim of William Butler Yeats to that title.
Austin Clarke
AgeWorldNewBecomeSingerPoet
Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.
Orson F. Whitney
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The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
William Shakespeare
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Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.
Natasha Trethewey
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It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work.
Philip Levine
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