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100 quotesHomer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully.
Poetry and Poets
Aristotle
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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Lies and Lying
Aristotle
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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
Music
W. H. Auden
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Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.
Poetry and Poets
W. H. Auden
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Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.
Names
W. H. Auden
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Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without poetry.
Poetry and Poets
Charles Baudelaire
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Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.
Poetry and Poets
Maxwell Bodenheim
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To banish cares, scare away sorrow and soothe pain is the business of the poet and singer.
Pain
Bodenstedt
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The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.
Infinity
Joseph Brodsky
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Poetry is life distilled.
Poetry and Poets
Gwendolyn Brooks
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A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.
Paranoia
Luis Bunuel
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Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.
Travel and Tourism
Sir Richard Burton
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Poetry should only occupy the idle.
Poetry and Poets
Lord Byron
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Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth -- the true poet is very near the oracle.
Poetry and Poets
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
Slang
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
Suffering
John Ciardi
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Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.
Poetry and Poets
Jean Cocteau
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Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order.
Vocabulary
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
Poetry and Poets
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one.
Poetry and Poets
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
Elections
Mario Cuomo
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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
Poetry and Poets
Emily Dickinson
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Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.
Poetry and Poets
Denis Diderot
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He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
Plagiarism
John Dryden
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A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
Poetry and Poets
Max Eastman
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun