Quotes by Poet I say sometimes that I'm a poet but I work in the novel form. That's what I do. That's what makes sense to me. I think of myself as someone who makes particular interventions into genres that already exist. Douglas A. Martin poet sometimes thinking How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do" "Except to teach me for the first time what they meant. Dorothy L. Sayers poet taken firsts And I'll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds. Dorothy Parker chasing poet A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold. E. B. White cracks poet may [I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet. Dylan Thomas users freak poet a poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination; to report on the electrifying experience of being e. e. cummings fascination poet movement The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper E. O. Wilson scientist poet thinking I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution. E. L. Doctorow poet committed sin No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet. E. O. Wilson hunters poet world We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. E. M. Forster poverty poet poor I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal. E. M. Forster poet love-is romantic The poet is the complete lover of mankind. Edith Sitwell mankind poet lovers Always in a foreign country, the poet uses poetry as an interpreter. Edmond Jabes poet use country The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song. Edmund Clarence Stedman endeavor poet song A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager. Edmund Clarence Stedman critics poet accepting A poet must sing for his own people. Edmund Clarence Stedman poet people I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind. Edmund Wilson poet kind Poets that lasting marble seek, Must come in Latin or in Greek. Edmund Waller poet greek latin You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that. Edna St. Vincent Millay darling poet As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all. Edgar Allan Poe mathematician poet reason «4567891011121314»
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