Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence.
Brian Harris
WordsYouNewWritePoetsBefore
If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.
Peter Davison
RealisticPoetsWere
Not many poets have editors.
Kevin Young
PoetsManyEditors
Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
Ernest Hemingway
CrazyYouPoetLikePoetsPound
In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.
James Broughton
PoetryWorldRealUniversityPoets
When it comes to writers and poets, for me it's Vinicius de Moraes. He's one of the greatest lyricists ever.
Ben Harper
MeGreatestPoetsHeEverWriters
I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.
Jack Prelutsky
BeenPoetsInfluencedDiverseLewis
When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.
John Crowe Ransom
StyleWaitingCriticsSamePoets
I'm an amalgam of the 19th-century romantics and the beat poets.
Roy Harper
BeatPoets19th-CenturyRomantics
American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.
Diane Wakoski
CelebrateAmericanPoetsDidVery
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle
ArtLiesTellingPoetsTelling Lies
Frost is the most sophisticated of poets.
FrostSophisticatedMostPoets
Poets wish to profit or to please.
Horace
WishProfitPoetsPlease
If you want poets in space, you'll have to wait.
Buzz Aldrin
SpaceWaitYouWantPoets
Science is not addressed to poets.
George Henry Lewes
SciencePoets
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
Walt Whitman
GreatMustPoetsAudiences
Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
J. D. Salinger
WeatherEmotionsAlwaysThingsPoets
Many poets, as you know, are not good readers.
Robert Giroux
GoodYouKnowPoetsManyReaders
I think the poets and musicians, they belong to everybody.
Ruby Dee
ThinkMusiciansBelongPoetsI Think
It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.
Dougray Scott
DifficultGetMadePoetsAbout
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
ArtLiesWhoTellingPoetsTaught
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
PoetryWorldPoetsLegislators
Poets are not meant to be in competition.
Howard Jacobson
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The public is probably more suspicious of poets than women, and maybe for good reason.
Billy Collins
GoodWomenMoreReasonThanPoets
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