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I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets. Heraclitus

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My mother taught us to play baseball, to bake a cake, to play fair - she beat the living daylights out of us sometimes, and she loved us with all her heart; she taught her favorite poets, and there is no child care in the world that will ever be a substitute for what that lady was in our life. Janet Reno

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We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace. Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing. Leonard Cohen

The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words. Octavio Paz

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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table. Paul Auster

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When we talk to somebody and we want to be nice or polite or show our more beautiful side, we try to use the best words that we know. This is what poets are doing. They are cleaning the words, they are inventing the sentiments, they are giving us a way to communicate. Roberto Benigni

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People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists. Russell Simmons

Blame People Will Society Poets True Always Artists Ills

I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is fleeting doesn't mean it isn't valuable. If the only criterion of value is whether something lasts, then the whole of human life is a waste of time. Sebastian Faulks

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Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn't been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields. Steve Jobs

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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible. T. S. Eliot

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When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich. Maya Angelou

Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements. Aberjhani

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Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results. Allen Tate

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If you read the poets of the 19th century in Latin America, you would see that Havana or Mexico City or Buenos Aires are incredibly modern and global cities that they were not. And eventually they became real, and they became real because people read these books and tried to live in a better world. Alvaro Enrigue

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A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it. Amber Tamblyn

Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians. Ameen Rihani

Revolution Politicians White Visionaries Poets Bled Glorified Intellectuals Sanctified

Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth also repeats itself. But we seldom recognize it when great poets or true artists - the prophets and the priests of our day - present it to us in garments spick and span, following the fashion of the age, the slant of its fancy, the turn and temper of its mind. Ameen Rihani

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The major poets of New Jersey have all suffered, whether it's Whitman, who lost his job for 'Leaves of Grass,' or William Carlos Williams, who was called a communist, or Ginsberg, whose 'Howl' was prosecuted, or myself. If you practise poetry the way I think it needs to be done, you're going to put yourself in jeopardy. Amiri Baraka

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Even the greatest poets can't express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances. Andrei Codrescu

Way Immediate Circumstances Poets Greatest Tragedy Than Even Express Larger

If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I hadn't lived in vain. Great poets might expect the whole body of their work, but most of us - well, I would settle for a handful. Andrew Motion

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But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both. Andrew Motion

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos. Andrew Motion

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