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Letter "P" » Poets
«Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.»
«...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.»
«Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love»
«Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.»
«Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other»
«Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions»
«Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.»
«Poets are born, not made»
«Next to being a great poet, is the power of understanding one»
«Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.»